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Article: It's all in our heads Robert kegan ponders the overwhelming demands of modern life
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1994
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IN OVER OUR HEADS
The Mental Demands of Modern Life.
By Robert Kegan. Harvard University Press. 396 pp.
Illustrated. $29.95.
David Mehegan is an assistant book editor of the Globe.
We have too much to do. We are tired, frazzled and besieged with
competing demands on our energy and attention. Society is demanding
and stressful, and often we cannot cope with it. We feel
overwhelmed.
All this is a commonplace, at least for most adults in
sophisticated society; we hear it, we often say it. In this densely
packed, challenging book, psychologist Robert Kegan, chairman of the
Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education at Harvard, tries
to define this sensibility with ...