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Originally Posted by yossarian  polarization is a rare spiritual calling that, in any given lifetime, very few people undertake and very few achieve. |
It seems as if you were already well-familiar with the concept of polarization before Steve brought it up. If that's true, what was your understanding of it before you read the "Pavlina" version of it?
I don't like the whole concept at all, or how it has been presented, and it is completely irrelevent and counter-productive in my life at this stage. I also don't like some things that Steve has said concerning people who don't "polarize" and I find some of those things to be outright untrue and completely lacking in understanding for the variety in the different types of lives and states of mind people find themselves in in the world and it's hard for me to understand why someone who is full of love and so well-off and well-adjusted in all areas of his life would write and presume such things.
i.e. "They live in a very half-assed manner. There’s no fire behind their eyes. They don’t even know why they’re here, so they go through the motions in a confused daze, like a cartoon character who just got bonked on the head."
"This whole “Personal Development for Smart People” website is really aimed at that 1%. It’s not a “for dummies” site...My role is to help people who are supposed to be in that 1% to come to terms with what that means and to accept the responsibility of being a “smart person.” "
"One really intelligent and aware individual has far more leverage to make a difference on this planet than a thousand drones, so I perceive that my greatest leverage is to help and encourage those who have the potential to make huge differences on this planet in the years ahead."
From this, I really shouldn't be on his site at all, nor should anyone who does not understand or agree with this "polarization." Not only has he not managed to explain "polarization" and the two sides of it (and everything in between) in a way I and a multitude of others can even confidently understand it, but we have been alienated and no longer qualify for his help anymore - not that he can control if one of us gets help from his site, but, in accordance with his words, that would be accidental and not his intention.
I am a drone and I live my life "half-assedly" and with no passion or purpose and I am also stupid. This revelation Steve has had about me and my life is not uplifting or encouraging - not surprisingly, it has the exact opposite effect. Even a stupid person can feel, if not immediately, then upon reflection, these words are not loving and can't be from someone who is full of love for others, or who is "love-polarized." I don't want to be like Steve. I already am like him in this respect. I can say and feel things like that about other people too and I think it is bad - that's why I want to change.
It makes me feel all over again why I cannot socially belong to an organized religion. Everyone finds reasons to exclude others - to exclude me. This is specifically why I have never gotten along well in religious social groups, regardless of what religion. Almost all require you to believe and think and act like they do, or else you are exempt from receiving any kind of help or even from being in their company. This is specifically
not supposed to be a feature of "personal development".
How many people have embraced or are desperately trying to embrace "Pavlina Polarity" just because Steve has said that if they don't, they are drones, stupid and living half-assedly with no purpose or passion?
Note: I will probably eventually delete most of this post, since most of it doesn't deal with the thread topic and I will probably regret having written the things I wrote in it.