You’ve spent years learning and practicing vertical development knowing most of the main players within your field, such as Robert Kegan, Bill Torbert, Susanne Cook-Greuter, and Richard Barrett.
You know that the growth process involves questioning one’s assumptions and beliefs, facing one’s fears, seeking out newer values to live by, and gaining newer experiences which help you to collective level up your level of consciousness in life.
You also know that this occurs by traversing through one’s inner terrain and expanding one’s worldview by exploring stages of development which have accompanying levels of consciousness related to them.
To understand how life is a role-playing game, all you need to do is understand that all of these deeper things that describe the narrative mechanics of growth and development in life actually mirror the game mechanics of a role-playing game, allowing players to level up their character within the game.