Archive for March 2006
Is Self-Help a Scam?
The self-help industry is frequently criticized for being populated by scam artists who overpromise and underdeliver. Is this a valid criticism? Let’s take a deeper look into the dark side of self-help. False promises One of the biggest problems in the self-help industry is that promoters make false promises. They promise hugely unrealistic results, as…
Personal Growth on Steroids: The Strategy of Immersion
Bear Bombing
StevePavlina.com Podcast #012 – Building Confidence
Today’s podcast is about building confidence, a topic that many readers have requested I cover. This podcast will give you four different methods for boosting your confidence. One of the reasons people don’t feel confident is that they harbor limiting beliefs that block them from tapping into this inner resource. For example, do you believe…
Creativity for Smart People
According to a well-known stereotype, left-handed* people such as myself are supposedly more creative than right-handed people. For example, in the previous sentence, I just alienated most of my readers while simultaneously giving myself a compliment — pretty creative, eh? I don’t know if that stereotype has any basis in reality, but when I learned…
Conscious Procrastination
The Parable of the Talents
In various religious texts, there can be found some interesting personal development gems. One from the Bible is “The Parable of the Talents.” The Parable of the Talents is one of the stories Jesus told to teach a moral lesson. Although the word “talents” in the story refers literally to money, you can obviously extend…