Personal Development for Smart People^TM

I’ve lasted 3 weeks now on the polyphasic sleep experiment. It’s been quite an amazing experience, and unless some unforeseen roadblocks occur in the weeks ahead, I’ve decided to stick with it.
Things I Haven’t Tried. I’ve received several questions about things I haven’t tried, like napping at my desk or eating different foods [...]

I’ve had some further developments regarding my polyphasic sleep experiment, so I figured an update would be in order.
Lucid Dreaming. On Monday night I had another lucid dream during a nap I took just after midnight. This one wasn’t as vivid or as long as the first, but I consider it a significant development because [...]

Many books on time management recommend the practice of thinking of each hour of your time as being worth a specific quantity of money. It’s an extension of the “time is money” concept. First you figure out what your hourly rate is, and then you use that as a guide to determine where you should [...]

In Hinduism there are said to be several paths that lead to the cessation of human suffering. These are known as the four yogas: karma yoga (action, work, service), bhakti yoga (love, devotion, worship), raja yoga (meditation, mental control, “psychic” exercise), and jnana yoga (knowledge, philosophy, enquiry). No one yoga is better [...]

I had made a note on my calendar to write a polyphasic sleep experiment update this morning, so here goes…
Today I’m beginning my 18th day on polyphasic sleep. I’ve been able to do a lot more testing and tweaking over the past week, and overall I’ve been very pleased with my progress.
Flexibility. I’ve [...]

Within hours after posting A Dose of Caffeine for Your Consciousness, I went downstairs and saw that my wife was watching a movie. She was watching Mystery Men, which is about a group of inept but well-intentioned superheroes. This was a movie we’d seen when it first came out in 1999 but not [...]

Would your experience of shared objective reality continue to exist if you stopped believing in it? What would happen if you started to suspect, wonder, and maybe even believe that reality is at least partially created by your own thoughts?
What is this non-scientific poppycock I’m spouting? Let’s address the “scientific” objections first then, [...]

Is it morally wrong to attempt to become wealthy?
It’s no surprise to me that the Million Dollar Experiment, while mostly getting a highly positive reception, has also uncovered some opposition from people who believe the pursuit of financial wealth is inherently greedy, selfish, immoral, or just plain evil.
How do you feel about the whole idea [...]

I stumbled upon this neat little tool to compute how much your blog is worth from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. The tool computes a dollar value for your blog using the same link-to-dollar ratio as the recent sale of Weblogs, Inc. to America Online:
How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
Here’s my result for www.stevepavlina.com/blog:

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StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #6
This podcast is about how to make money through multiple streams of income without actually having a job, which is something I’ve been doing for the past 13 years. This is a high-level overview of the general process and mindset involved in generating passive income streams. It would [...]