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I read of bunch of his blog posts ten years ago and while there was some interesting content, there was also really weird and dangerous shit. For instance the s

I read of bunch of his blog posts ten years ago and while there was some interesting content, there was also really weird and dangerous shit. For instance the series his one (or 3?) month experiment on polyphasic sleep[1] or his month eating only vegetable smoothies, which can have serious health consequences. Then he shifted to the edgy polyamory stuff and I quit. Note that I tried the polyphasic sleep for a week or so and I suspect SP romanticized the things a bit in his blog posts. Like down putting the bad aspects, hyping the good ones in order to market the thing (thus himself). It was an interesting series, but this kind of material should be contextualized and display along with warnings. Finally, once you get a few key ideas (mainly that you need to do things to get results), spending time reading personal development stuff is wasting time. Every blog, post, book just retold a few identical ideas. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_slee...

JackPoach 6y ago
Yeah, so you might be as old as I am. I remember when he was breaking up with Erin and leaving two kids behind, which clearly was a painful process. And we would be like 'OK, Steve, you are into sex, BDSM, and fucking other people. That's cool.' And he'd be like 'No, it's not that. It's personal development, freedom, next stage, bla-bla-bla'. I never got why polyamory couldn't just be polyamory (a personal choice), it had to be a proof that you as individual have graduated to progress to something that's more advanced. He used to have a ton of blog post about a girl who agreed to be his slave (in BDSM). That's where he lost me. I actually like kink, but I prefer to get mine from Pornhub, because it's personal development-free and I can just enjoy if for what it is. Plus he used to sell the shit out of his $400 per person 'personal growth' workshops. That was annoying as hell too. P.S. I am glad I stopped reading Steve ten years ago, I've just browsed through his website and I think he became more woo-woo. At least that's my impression after reading his recent article about how you are supposed to 'energetically clean money' that you received as payment for your work - https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/how-to-clean-your-moneys-energy/ https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/how-to-clean-your-...

JackPoach 6y ago

Yeah, so you might be as old as I am. I remember when he was breaking up with Erin and leaving two kids behind, which clearly was a painful process. And we would be like 'OK, Steve, you are into sex, BDSM, and fucking other people. That's cool.' And he'd be like 'No, it's not that. It's personal development, freedom, next stage, bla-bla-bla'. I never got why polyamory couldn't just be polyamory (a personal choice), it had to be a proof that you as individual have graduated to progress to something that's more advanced. He used to have a ton of blog post about a girl who agreed to be his slave (in BDSM). That's where he lost me. I actually like kink, but I prefer to get mine from Pornhub, because it's personal development-free and I can just enjoy if for what it is. Plus he used to sell the shit out of his $400 per person 'personal growth' workshops. That was annoying as hell too. P.S. I am glad I stopped reading Steve ten years ago, I've just browsed through his website and I think he became more woo-woo. At least that's my impression after reading his recent article about how you are supposed to 'energetically clean money' that you received as payment for your work - https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/how-to-clean-your-moneys-energy/ https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/how-to-clean-your-...