Conan what is best in life?

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

A quote from Conan the barbarian.

Welcome to Spiral Dynamics stage red.

This is a continuation of my multi-part series on the psychological developmental model known as spiral dynamics.

I'm not going to introduce that whole model here, we're just going to jump right into stage red.

I've already covered stages blue, orange, green,

yellow, and even turquoise.

And so we're sort of moving backwards here down the spiral and we have a lot of

material to cover so let's get started. I want to make sure I give credit here to some

important people who develop spiral dynamics,

this model.

It's an amazing model and they did some amazing work here.

They really devoted their lives to flushing out this model and making it popular. So credits go to Claire Graves, who was the

original developer of the value system underneath the model, and then Don Beck and Christopher Cohen for

popularizing it and fleshing it out and giving it the label spiral dynamics.

I also want to give credit to a website called spiral dynamics integral dot n l from which I pulled some information here that I'll be

quoting directly and I also pulled a lot of material from the spiraliral Dynamics book written by Dawn Beck and by Christopher Cohen.

Sometimes I just rip out entire phrases or words or sentences from that book and I'll be quoting a lot of that stuff here. So by no means that I make

all of this up myself. So the way that Sprout dynamics works just to refresh your memory

a little bit and I'm going to show you here a chart of the Spraile Dynamic model.

Basically what it is, is it's a series of stages

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