Self-Help
Here are some pages I made related to Steve Pavlina's fantastic book Personal Development for Smart People:
- About Steve Pavlina's Book Personal Development for Smart People - a review.
- Expanded Table of Contents
- Expanded Table of Contents Printable Web Version (probably prints best with Firefox)
- Expanded Table of Contents Printable PDF Version
- JavaScript Random Generator: 66 Personal Effectiveness Habits from Steve Pavlina's Book, Personal Development for Smart People
Here's a transcript I made of a Steve Pavlina podcast: Transcript of Steve Pavlina Podcast #11 for 2/12/2006 - Raising Awareness Through Multiple Perspectives
The transcript is in the public domain, as is the original podcast. Steve, with astounding and admirable generosity, released most of his work to the public domain in Dec. 2010. More details are available in this blog post from Steve's site: Releasing My Copyrights
I probably am not going to do more Steve Pavlina podcast transcripts, because someone else is going to do them. (I did this one mainly so I would have an example of transcription work to add to my oDesk portfolio).
So, for more transcripts, go to: StevePavlinaPodcast.info
The main reason I created this section of my site to begin with is because I needed an appropriate place to put this article:
- How to Be a Woman - An article that never would have been written if Steve Pavlina hadn't asked on his blog for people to try writing an article by this title, and offered to link to the best ones. I don't take the idea of gender roles very seriously - maybe I've had too many past lives as a man :-) - so, it's written in a not altogether serious (but unfortunately not incredibly humorous) way. :-) It's actually applicable to anyone of any gender.
External links
Some excellent self-help/personal development sites
- NickPagan.com - A blog with a very down to earth, logical, very cerebral style. Update, 2/3/2011: That blog, though still available, stopped having new posts in Nov. 2009. The author has a new blog at: 1dayhabit.com
- StevePavlina.com - a site with a tremendous amount of incredibly useful, interesting, well-written material on a wide range of topics related to personal development.
- ErinPavlina.com - There's quite a lot of fascinating, well-written stuff here too. Since Erin is a psychic, a lot of it is about paranormal topics.
Some of my favorite articles
Not a complete list, so, this list will likely grow, eventually, as I discover (or rediscover) more articles.
- How to Operate Your Brain Perfectly, by Nick Pagan (PDF File) - Incredibly logical, sensible, and practical ideas. I just need to remind myself to keep putting them into practice... :-)
- Violent Acres Blog: Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason - I love this article... :-) The blog itself is fantastic and well-written, too. (It's more of a personal blog rather than a blog focusing on personal development tips, so that's why I didn't link to it in the previous section).
- Overcoming Depression, by Steve Pavlina - Useful advice even if the "Law of Attraction" stuff doesn't literally work. Hooray for paying the bare minimum of attention to your problems, and thereby getting yourself into such a good mood that your life improves just because you're in a good mood. :-) Just one of zillions of fantastic articles on Steve's site.
- The Law of Attraction is Repulsive, by John Freestone - A great article which expresses many of the things that have always bothered me about the Law of Attraction, which I never got around to putting into my own words. As well as many criticisms I never thought up on my own, but which I agree with.