Pre-order Personal Development for Smart People (Blog)

[Angela]

I totally agree with yankee racers -- welcome, by the way! -- Availability on Kindle often is the deciding factor on whether I buy a book or not these days. Of course, I will buy your book anyway, but I'll bet there are plenty of people who feel the way I do about Kindle. My experience has been, too, that I've been able to buy Kindle books before they're available in my bookstore.

[seeker5]

Ugh! I don't understand any of you kindle lovers, nor any of you ebook lovers! I love to be on my computer 15 hours a day, and often am....

However, when it comes to reading a book, I so much more rather read a book I can hold in my hand then read something on a computer screen...!

[Angela]

Have you ever actually held and read a Kindle? It's like a darling little baby. You might not love it until you hold it.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Angela

Have you ever actually held and read a Kindle? It's like a darling little baby. You might not love it until you hold it.

I've never held one. I've only made googley faces at them through the nursery window.

[Eric Revelin]

Does this most excellent book come with a t-shirt, or a calender featuring pictures of Steve in scant clothing? I am a savvy consumer! I DEMAND PRE-ORDER BONUSES! *Slurps 4 dollar slushee*

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Angela

Have you ever actually held and read a Kindle? It's like a darling little baby. You might not love it until you hold it.

No, I've never even seen one with my real eyes. I've only read reviews and stuff about it online.

Hmmm, I've never held a darling little baby either

Maybe I should hold a darling little baby first before I hold a kindle so I can compare to how I love it?

[Steve Pavlina]

I posted some info from Hay House regarding Kindle, audio, and translated versions in a new thread:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/s...-new-post.html

[thorstenbonn]

Steve,

fantastic job on promoting your book. Can't wait to read it...

Very exciting to have such a strong community of support.

Cheers,

Thorsten

[thorstenbonn]

Originally Posted by Angela

Have you ever actually held and read a Kindle? It's like a darling little baby. You might not love it until you hold it.

I actually never heard of this "Kindle" device before today, but now I really want one. It'll be great for those of us who can't decide between countless books and newspapers without occupying the better part of the basement.

Great new technology.

[Keith]

It's awesome that your book is in the Amazon top 100! But I'd actually like to order it from my local bookstore.

Will it only be sold through Amazon and Barnes and Noble? If not, is there a strong risk of it being sold out on preorders and never reaching the local bookstore?

Thanks.

[Steve Pavlina]

The book should be widely available in major bookstores. Hay House has very strong distribution. I can't say exactly which of the thousands of bookstores it will appear in though. But it should be fairly easy to find locally.

If the pre-orders are so strong that the book nearly sells out -- it would take a lot of pre-sales to make that happen -- Hay House will just print more. I doubt we'll see a problem with shortages given the volumes they're used to working with. Some of their books sell more than a million copies a year.

[Neutral]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

It would be pretty tough to tell if someone is genuinely living on purpose based on a forum post. I may get an intuitive sense about the answer, but I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when they post here. It's much easier for me to sense how someone is doing when I meet them in person.

and Bruce Achterberg

*Again not to hijack this thread.* (I wish the software could distinguish and hide digressions in conversation.)

Do either of you believe that personal development is the most intelligent purpose for everyone?

I assume everyone here believes that. We're all devoted to personal development, and would love to see everyone take it up.

But while we share that goal, we differ in our ways of fulfilling it.

On the low end, we generally agree. Being a bum, isn't empowering toward that end. On the high end, we disagree. Some people become writers, speakers, artists, or politicians, to achieve that end.

We should be able to discard activities that don't contribute toward this end. And while we don't know what events would lead an individual to adopt PD, why couldn't we be smart enough to narrow down the list to a few approaches?

If we had enough knowledge, I can't see why this would be an impossible system to develop.

Is this what you answered in the book?

[Eric Revelin]

Originally Posted by Neutral

and Bruce Achterberg

But given that goal, wouldn't there be an optimal path, that for everyone could follow? And couldn't someone have already figured out the optimal answer.

Neutral, I'm not Steve (obviously) and I'm not going to try and speak for him. This is entirely my own opinion.

Each individual is so varied in their goals and their passions that it's impossible to find an "ultimate answer" that applies to every single person. The only universals you're going to find are:

1. Basic human psychology
2. The low-end agreements

Those aren't entirely universal either. Becoming a bum might just be the kick in the pants somebody needs to achieve inner peace, for instance. It can be considered very empowering to center yourself and find happiness in horrible conditions. If you read some of what Erin says, I'd wager that she'd tell you some people actually choose lives like that because in the end it will yield far greater rewards for them than what most of us would consider a successful, empowering path.

I'd say if there is one single universal principle it's that your answers need to be found within. Other people can help point you in the right direction but only your heart can tell you what is best for you. It's the only thing I've noticed from my observations that seems to be a constant. The paths people walk on this basis are all very different but ultimately result is the same- immense joy, passion for living, etc.

[Keith]

I've just started reading M Scott Peck's "The road less travelled" and I notice that he seems to have come to similar conclusions to Steve. The three key themes that keep coming through are Truth, Responsibility (aka Power) and Love - Steve's big three. These lead to proper mental functioning (Steve's "Intelligence"?)

Peck hasn't developed it into an all-encompassing framework like Steve, but it was interesting to see that he'd come to similar conclusions...

[Angela]

Originally Posted by thorstenbonn

I actually never heard of this "Kindle" device before today, but now I really want one. It'll be great for those of us who can't decide between countless books and newspapers without occupying the better part of the basement.

Great new technology.

Not just space, it saves you money, too, if you buy enough books. Kindle books are usually 9.99 or less. Saves the trees, too. Plus, you can take 200 books with you on vacation, all tucked in your jacket pocket.

[Rose of Cairo]

Steve, congratulations

On amazon.fr your book is #451 in the category "books in English", and

#4 in books in English > self-help > motivational and
#5 in books in English > self-help > personal transformation.

On amazon.de it's #488, #4, #4.

(And the cover still hurts me every time I see it )

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

(And the cover still hurts me every time I see it )

The cover looks pretty good if you're colorblind, so you might want to work on your ability to see reality through multiple lens. Don't limit yourself to full-color vision.

[ming]

I would have thought that someone who writes so passionately about LOA would easily manage to buy his groceries using the law of attraction.

[Thomas]

If the pre-orders are so strong that the book nearly sells out -- it would take a lot of pre-sales to make that happen -- Hay House will just print more. I doubt we'll see a problem with shortages given the volumes they're used to working with. Some of their books sell more than a million copies a year.

To that end it'd be interesting if there'd be a counter how many have pre-sold so far.

[Ron Stoppable]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The cover looks pretty good if you're colorblind, so you might want to work on your ability to see reality through multiple lens. Don't limit yourself to full-color vision.

When I greyscale the cover, the red and blue become pretty much the same shade - is that how it is for you?

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The cover looks pretty good if you're colorblind, so you might want to work on your ability to see reality through multiple lens. Don't limit yourself to full-color vision.

What! I'm already working on my ability to imagine what the world looks like in 3D because I can see only two (one of my eyes doesn't see), and now you want to take even the colors away? You're heartless!

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

With respect to how polarity (lightworking, darkworking) overlaps these concepts, that would take a whole other book to explain in detail. I've been thinking about writing a book on polarity too.

I would LOVE to read it!

[Andreas]

I ran Vischeck's daltonize which processes a color image into what a color blind person sees. In this case, I'm 99% sure that steve is red/green colorblind, meaning he can't tell the difference between those two colors. If I'm correct, this is what he sees:

http://byteful.com/media/v/Playgroun...cover.jpg.html

There seems to be a lot of blue and yellow in Steve's world.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Andreas

I ran Vischeck's daltonize which processes a color image into what a color blind person sees. In this case, I'm 99% sure that steve is red/green colorblind, meaning he can't tell the difference between those two colors. If I'm correct, this is what he sees:

Deuteranope Book Cover

There seems to be a lot of blue and yellow in Steve's world.

The settings must be wrong -- I am RG colorblind, but that isn't how the cover looks to me.

[Ron Stoppable]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The settings must be wrong -- I am RG colorblind, but that isn't how the cover looks to me.

If the processed image to non-colourblind people is how the actual image looks to RG-colourblind people, then you looking at the processed image involves two different lots of processing, hence no-one can tell if it's correct.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Ron Stoppable

If the processed image to non-colourblind people is how the actual image looks to RG-colourblind people, then you looking at the processed image involves two different lots of processing, hence no-one can tell if it's correct.

I can tell if it's correct if the original image and the Daltonized image look identical to me.

For example, the two photos of fruit at the top of this page look the same to me, but my color-seeing family and friends report that they look very different:
Vischeck: About Daltonize

[Chris_1977]

They indeed do look very differently! Red and green are very different colors if you can see all colors! O, well, but nobody can see all colors. The real color space is infinite dimensional and even if you have all color cells working that infinity gets projected down to three....

[wulph]

Colorblind Web Page Filter

Plug in Steve's site for a simulation; you can choose from many different forms of colorblindness.

[Holistic Star]

I really like the colour blind version of the cover -
much more restful on the eyes!

[TimG]

Reading this blog entry, I was intrigued by the way Steve presents his principles in equations:

Oneness = Truth + Love
Authority = Truth + Power
Courage = Love + Power

It makes me wonder...

I imagine you can be strongly aligned with Truth, or weakly aligned with Truth (same for Love and Power)

So does [Truth(0.5) + Power(1.0)] produce the "same" Authority as [Power(0.5) + Truth(1.0)] ?

Does the resulting Authority in each case have a different nuance? If the two were applied to the same real world problem, would the outcomes be different?

Further, if we can have a varying potency of each principle, then what are the bounds? Obviously zero at the lower end but the upper end? What is the maximum amount of Truth that I can put into the equation? What if I had "Truth squared"? Would "fully aligned" be infinity?

I also wonder about the order of the addition. Water+Acid can produce a different result to Acid+Water (depending on "potency" of the acid). Would Truth+Power be any different to Power+Truth ?

[supertom]

why did he use intelligence?? It should have been wisdom but i guess hes just keeping with the "smart people" thing