Ever changed your mind about something since you have been posting publicly?

[Radog99]

Steve,

You have chronicled at length in your blog how you have changed your perspective in different areas of life (crime, religion, etc.) over time and adopted better, more empowering beliefs as you grew as a person and raised your level of conscious awareness. However, your most dramatic anecdotal experiences (from what I have read) occured before you started publishing to this website.

What I would be interested in knowing is, have you ever went back and looked at an older blog post and thought to yourself, "You know, I just don't think this way anymore. While this way of thinking may have served me in the past, I have now outgrown viewing reality this way," yet, the blog post was still there, and available for public consumption? This is just a basic example.

To me, it seems that if a person dedicated their life to and/or immersed themselves in the pursuit of personal growth, they would have growth-related experiences and acquire additional belief-altering knowledge at a far more rapid pace than the average person (who was content living in a smaller comfort zone). This then would seem to necessarily expedite the process of revising, and even changing your stance/attitude on certain issues as your body of knowledge, information and experience increases - frequently even. But I haven't read or seen anything in the forums or your blog archives to suggest that this is taking place.

I just think it would be interesting to read a new blog post basically saying that your development in some area has advanced to such a degree that you know longer believe something you used to - even if you have blogged about it, and even if the blog is still relevant and helpful to someone at less advanced stage of personal evolution.

I apologize in advance if anything I said is unclear, or this topic has been addressed before in another thread.

[Brutha]

You make the assumption that everything that Steve posts is his definite opinion on a topic at a time.
Think in lenses instead of standpoints.

"You know, I just don't think this way anymore. While this way of thinking may have served me in the past, I have now outgrown viewing reality this way,"

Steve hasn't static views of reality.
He uses lenses. Hear the Beyond Religion podcast about that topic.
Especially a newer post like 10 Reasons against Religion is made out of one perspective and not necessarly the only perspective or lens of Steve Pavlina.

And I think that Steve changes in a way that he get more disattached from single perspectives.
If you read 10 Reasons against Religion from that view knowing what Steve posted previously about his view of Jesus, it's just funny to read because Steve goes totally into that one of the religion hater perspective for that one article.

I think his range of perspectives or lenses grows faster than the changes you are thinking about, which means that all his blogging experience still fits into his variety of lenses that he has today.

[Dannyboy1]

I hate many of my earlier posts. Especially the ones where I let my emotion control me and didn't really think things out. My communication skills were horrific when I first started posting. I'm getting a little better (I hope), but I'm sure I'll look back on some of the newer ones at some point and say, "What the hell was I thinking?" But isn't that the purpose of doing this? To grow? My mind is slowly opening more and more to new ideas and philosophies.

[Steve Pavlina]

I often look back on older articles I've written and feel that the ideas in them don't resonate with me anymore.

At the same time, I realize those articles are still helping people who are at the right place in their lives to receive them, so it makes sense to leave them online instead of deleting or trying to rewrite them.

Sometimes if I experience a big shift, I'll even disagree with stuff I wrote a month ago. If I didn't fall out of resonance with my older articles, it would mean I've stopped learning and growing.

That's one of the reasons I worked so hard on my book, trying to make it as timeless and universal as possible. I didn't want to look back on it ten years from now and groan.

In fact, a big part of the reason I decided to turn personal development into my career is that I didn't want to embark on another career I'd outgrow, such as I did with game development. I figured I can't really outgrow growth.

[Dave Kaminski]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

In fact, a big part of the reason I decided to turn personal development into my career is that I didn't want to embark on another career I'd outgrow, such as I did with game development. I figured I can't really outgrow growth.

Although it may lead to lightworker action, is this a darkworker motivation?

"I'm so great I had to pick the most difficult profession possible so it could hold in all my greatness!"

Or do I have the perspective all mixed up?

[Steve Pavlina]

Working on your personal growth is actually the best thing you can do to help others, assuming that you're growing towards greater alignment with truth, love, and power.

[Radog99]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I often look back on older articles I've written and feel that the ideas in them don't resonate with me anymore.

At the same time, I realize those articles are still helping people who are at the right place in their lives to receive them, so it makes sense to leave them online instead of deleting or trying to rewrite them.

Sometimes if I experience a big shift, I'll even disagree with stuff I wrote a month ago. If I didn't fall out of resonance with my older articles, it would mean I've stopped learning and growing.

That's one of the reasons I worked so hard on my book, trying to make it as timeless and universal as possible. I didn't want to look back on it ten years from now and groan.

In fact, a big part of the reason I decided to turn personal development into my career is that I didn't want to embark on another career I'd outgrow, such as I did with game development. I figured I can't really outgrow growth.

Thank you for an honest, ego-less answer. I had a theory, and you proved it correct. Good luck on the sales of the book.