Welcome

[Savage]

This new forum has been added to discuss the new book Personal Development for Smart People and its concepts.

Feel free to share your thoughts about the book, ask questions, expand on the book's ideas, discuss application, etc.

Thanks so much to seeker5 for volunteering to serve as moderator of this forum.

[Rose of Cairo]

Yay! This is awesome!

Congratulations Steve on the new subforum. It's wonderful to see the boards grow.

Congratulations seeker5, I'm sure you'll be an excellent mod

Here are my thoughts about the book: it SUCKS! ... that it's not available on amazon.fr yet

[Savage]

Since it will take a while for the book to get into people's hands, especially given that it shipped ahead of schedule, I suspect this forum may be a little low in traffic until a certain critical mass of people have had a chance to read it.

But at least this forum is available for anyone who wants to take advantage of it.

[Angela]

You know, I guess I misunderstood earlier when you were speaking of specific examples of how people can use the principles in a practical manner -- I thought you meant you would have "case studies" or actual experiences that people had had in aligning themselves with the principles. I was kind of excited to see that, and thumbed straight through looking for that, until I realized I had misunderstood.

Is that something you'll compile in your next book?

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

This new forum has been added to discuss the new book Personal Development for Smart People and its concepts.

Feel free to share your thoughts about the book, ask questions, expand on the book's ideas, discuss application, etc.

That's great!! I'm looking forward to having great discussions about those principles and on applying them!

Thanks so much to seeker5 for volunteering to serve as moderator of this forum.

You're welcome I'm glad to help out.

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by Angela

You know, I guess I misunderstood earlier when you were speaking of specific examples of how people can use the principles in a practical manner -- I thought you meant you would have "case studies" or actual experiences that people had had in aligning themselves with the principles. I was kind of excited to see that, and thumbed straight through looking for that, until I realized I had misunderstood.

Is that something you'll compile in your next book?

That might be something Steve could later do with the help of Pavlina LLC, perhaps when people have had more exposure to his book and the principles, and more people have successfully (or not, in the case of "what happens if X happens?" examples) applied them. It doesn't sound like the type of thing he could do efficiently by himself.

That's be a pretty neat-o thing to help with, actually.

Steve used a similar approach with his blog, where he leveraged his sharing of ideas (i.e. via blog posts), as well as all of the exposure he had to people emailing and contacting him in general. Steve has said that the latter gave him the opportunity to go deeper than he originally planned with his book (can’t remember where; it’ll be somewhere where he mentions his book and probably the word “opportunity”—maybe even in his book), and I've talked with Steve a bit about the former via email (nothing terribly major, just that blogging is iterative. The rest I've figured out for myself, observing how each of Steve's projects tend to be crazy-synergisitc).

Of course, Steve will have his own answer, but this is at least my individualised answer based on what I’ve observed.

[Bruce Achterberg]

Methinks I'm going to spend a fair bit of time observing and responding to things in this forum. This stuff is right up my alley.

*Preps for avalanche of questions about Steve's book, his content, and various things I'll probably be able to help out with*

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Angela

You know, I guess I misunderstood earlier when you were speaking of specific examples of how people can use the principles in a practical manner -- I thought you meant you would have "case studies" or actual experiences that people had had in aligning themselves with the principles. I was kind of excited to see that, and thumbed straight through looking for that, until I realized I had misunderstood.

Is that something you'll compile in your next book?

It wasn't something I had room to do in the book (word count was a constraint), so I wanted to stay focused on the how-to side. But this is the kind of thing that would work well as a blog post from time to time.

For the book I wanted to explain how to apply the principles to specific areas of your life like health, relationships, career, etc.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

It wasn't something I had room to do in the book (word count was a constraint), so I wanted to stay focused on the how-to side. But this is the kind of thing that would work well as a blog post from time to time.

Hopefully, we'll have also have a good number of people sharing their experience with applying these principles here so we can learn from each other.

[carenkh]

Just got the first e-mail from Hay House promoting the book! Here's the online version.