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Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by raphaelb »

I was really overjoyed when I found out about this and actually started a site based around it. I'd been listening to positive / educational audio every morning on a walk / run and found it to have massive improvements in my productivity and happiness.

I also read a lot of Steve's stuff so I wanted to be able to listen to his stuff while on my morning walk and while doing errands but he only had a few podcasts.

Thus, (shameless plug) www.empoweraudio.com was born. I got some top audio talent to partner with me to do audio versions of Steve's content - if anyone is interested.

Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by MikeCapone »

I liked a lot of Steve's early stuff, but when he went all esoteric and pseudo-scientific (referencing his wife's "intuitive readings" and psychic stuff, etc) he totally lost me.

Maybe I'll have to re-read some of his early stuff someday...

Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by aniket_ray »

MikeCapone wrote: post #4

I liked a lot of Steve's early stuff, but when he went all esoteric and pseudo-scientific (referencing his wife's "intuitive readings" and psychic stuff, etc) he totally lost me. Maybe I'll have to re-read some of his early stuff someday...

There was a phase when most of his articles started talking about his experiments with open marriages, giving out intimate details about the sexual and psychological effects.

I was an avid reader before that. Since I was never considering open marriages for myself, I just stopped reading when that phase hit.

Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by patio11 »

MikeCapone wrote: post #4

I liked a lot of Steve's early stuff, but when he went all esoteric and pseudo-scientific (referencing his wife's "intuitive readings" and psychic stuff, etc) he totally lost me. Maybe I'll have to re-read some of his early stuff someday...

I was turned off by the self-help guruism but he has one article (theoretically about shareware, but widely applicable) which was extraordinarily helpful to me several years ago. One particular insight, that improvements are multiplicatively effective, essentially transformed the way I do business.

Sadly it has fallen off the Internets, but Google still has a cache.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKYYOPx...

Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by dchest »

patio11 wrote: post #7
MikeCapone wrote: post #4

I liked a lot of Steve's early stuff, but when he went all esoteric and pseudo-scientific (referencing his wife's "intuitive readings" and psychic stuff, etc) he totally lost me. Maybe I'll have to re-read some of his early stuff someday...

I was turned off by the self-help guruism but he has one article (theoretically about shareware, but widely applicable) which was extraordinarily helpful to me several years ago. One particular insight, that improvements are multiplicatively effective, essentially transformed the way I do business. Sadly it has fallen off the Internets, but Google still has a cache. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cach…

Here are his early awesome articles about shareware/indie game development: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207132433/www.dexterity.com/...

Re: Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

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Post by zavulon »

I was one of his early readers, and used to love his stuff on productivity and personal development. I even tolerated his articles about astral world, lightworkers, law of attraction, etc. But when he posted a glowing "review" of a scam like Site Build-it, complete with an affiliate link, I've decided I've had enough and hit "Unsubscribe".

Lesson to be learned: never trust someone who became successful by telling others how to become successful.

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