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11-07-2006, 07:13 PM
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 How did you find StevePavlina.com? I see that people from all over the world have begun to fill the forums. I'm curious to know HOW people have found this place. I can already guess that there will be a few Googlers and Yahoos, but what about word to mouth and other sites? With a few answers, it might be possible to turn this into a poll! I'll begin. I was surfing digg.com and there was a link to the polyphasic sleep experiment. I've heard about it before and was curious enough to click and the rest, as they say, is history. What about you?      |
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11-07-2006, 07:15 PM
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| If you're talking about how I found the forum, it was because I signed up for the RSS feed from Steve's site. But I guess you're refering to how I found Steve's site, and that was through googeling lucid dreaming. The irony is that I've since put lucid dreaming on hold, while I'm working on my own Reality manifistation project. For more information please see my introduction. Cheers, Hogne. |
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11-07-2006, 07:27 PM
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| Well, someone told me about "the secret" dvd. I checked it out online, and brought the dvd. After I watched it I went on the forum they had. I then found a link to the stevepavlina website, went to the audio section and thought they were cool! then I read a few articles and bookmarked the page. 
__________________ In the arms of an angel. Fly away from here. -- In The Arms Of The Angel - Sarah McLachlan These wounds won't seem to heal This pain is just too real -- My Immortal - Evanescence |
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11-07-2006, 07:45 PM
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| I typed in "procrastination" on Google and came to Dexterity. Read the articles there and found a link to SP.com.
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol |
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11-07-2006, 07:59 PM
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| I believe one of Steve's blogs was on digg / All a while back. Can't remember which, but I've never looked back. Of course, I still check out Digg every day. |
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11-07-2006, 08:26 PM
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| There is reference link in the book "Mind Performance Hacks" to the article on getting up early. That was probably the best reference I've ever followed!  |
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11-07-2006, 09:00 PM
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| Google After I took a few MBTI-tests I found stevepavlina.com by searching "personal development" with Google. I am very, very accurately described as an INFP and my long-term goal is to revitalize my currently uprooted family tree. |
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11-07-2006, 10:22 PM
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| A link to one of his articles from a friend, who probably found this link on del.icio.us. Knowing him, I guess he was searching for productivity tools or lifehacks. |
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11-07-2006, 10:47 PM
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| I saw his "How to become an early riser post" on my yahoo news. I have struggled with this for years so it was a hot button for me. I'm still not an early riser though...because now I stay up late working on my own business so I can quit being someone else's biaatch. Thad
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11-08-2006, 06:03 AM
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| When I was little, I had a game called Duke Nukem 3D, which was by Apogee/3DRealms(my dad probably bought it in a store; I wasn't allowed to play it until some time or I played it anyway or something). I had some other games by them, but Duke3D was probably my favorite(since I had 300 user maps downloaded for it). When I was using the internet, I went to 3DRealms' site and found out about Duke Nukem Forever. Manhattan Project came out and I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever and got it for making a speech at a church(don't go to church anymore). This was in 4th grade, during the summer break before it, toward the end, I think.. It was pretty boring so I gave it to a friend. I payed quite a bit of attention to 3DRealms at the time but stopped then and went to other places on the internet. I came back to it when I was bored one day a while later. I knew what forums were at this point and had quit one a while ago due to it taking up lots of time(newgrounds) and was on the Cube Engine forums but they didn't have much activity. I joined and stayed there for a while before reading a post about a site called damninteresting.com. I was reading Damninteresting regularly now and there was a post about a group of people who sleep two hours a day and have a simple language(it violated a theory) and I said that they might be stupid from only getting two hours of sleep.. Someone told me about polyphasic sleep, which was what they were doing. Either they linked me to something or I googled around and I read about it, maybe finding some other stuff to read. Someone mentioned Steve.. I tried to do it by sleeping eight times with variable lengths(1 hour each, reduced as needed) spaced apart evenly and gave up after a week because some oversleep and having to skip cycles discouraged me.. I was planning to adapt to and then change it before school. School was starting soon so I went to bed at 2AM as that was what I was doing at the time. I woke up at 6AM and had another two hours of sleep when I got home, at 3:30PM. It worked pretty well, so, instead of going back to eight hours of sleep, I decided to improve it, and I knew that polyphasic sleep would help me out. I googled around and found Steve's articles about it, and I knew that he was good at it, so I read a little of them, and decided to read the other articles instead since they interested me. I was pretty surprised to learn that he made Dexterity because I read the articles there before and liked them, along with the ones he was writing here. I've been experimenting with my sleep since school started and don't intend to stop yet(the total time is nice and short, I'm wide awake at home(under an older version at least), but I'm sleepy during two points at school and awake the rest of the time. Also, I want a true polyphasic schedule when I don't have school(weekdays and holidays) and there's lots of oversleep without school(never over, say, 16 hours per 48-hour period though))... |
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11-08-2006, 07:20 AM
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11-08-2006, 10:22 AM
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| I'm not entirely sure, but I think I found this website from a link on somebody else's blog. Yup, I found the polyphasic sleep articles too I'm planning on trying polyphasic sleep after my HSC (several years away now). |
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11-08-2006, 02:13 PM
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| About 2 years ago, I found it in one of the Carnivals of Personal Finance. I was surprised to find an article about Personal Development in the mix. Avid reader ever since.
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11-08-2006, 03:42 PM
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| How to deal with a difficult mother... hello all! I became aware of Steve's site by searching "how to deal with a difficult mother" and reading this article: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...ship-problems/ What I gained from this article was a realization that there is suffering in being attached to outcomes (for example: mom should be what a "mom" should be/we should accept abusive behavior by our relatives: because they are our relatives; not a joyful assumption once it is considered); As I study/undertand consciousness and the negative impact of EGO: the more peaceful I become. The site is useful to raise consciousness and the recommended reading has been joyful. Joe Last edited by joelyle : 11-08-2006 at 03:44 PM. |
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11-08-2006, 05:08 PM
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| I was also looking for procrastination. I was very down on a depression, and there was alink from a guy who was translating StevePavlinca.com blogs, that someone put in a post in aforum about being suicidal ps. i am fine now, mainly because of Steve blogs |
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11-08-2006, 05:14 PM
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11-08-2006, 06:47 PM
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Yeah, I found it a few weeks are taking the Myers-Briggs test, I'm actually an INTJ. I remember searching Google for "introvert" and I found his article. I didn't realize he had a whole website and I forgot about it. When I came back I ended up reading almost every article on a 14 hour binge session! I definitely agree and recommend taking the Myers-Briggs/Carl Jung Typology test. I thought it'd be just another vain "personality" test but it was very accurate and it opens you up to a different way of looking at things. Find your type and then google it for a detailed description.
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11-13-2006, 07:18 AM
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| I'd found StevePavlina.com through googling these words "earn money with blogs" and "get huge blog traffic"
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