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    Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography
    Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography
    Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography
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    Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography

    By Thomas Baker

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    Steve Pavlina describes himself as “the most intensely growth-oriented individual you will ever meet.” Since the age of 19, when he was almost convicted of felony grand theft auto, Steve has dedicated his life to personal growth.

    Impassioned by sharing his growth with others, Pavlina has penned more than 700 articles and a book. He has appeared in newspapers across the globe, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Guardian. His self-titled website became the most popular personal development website on the planet, getting millions of hits per month.

    But who is Steve Pavlina? Is he the polymath he purports to be on his blog posts and in his book, or is he the “swindling knave” his opponents claim he is? Is Pavlina an honest personal blogger, or are his posts driven by the desire to make money, at all costs?

    From his early years at a high school with an abusive priest to his later in life experiments with polyamory and BDSM, this biography tells you all you want to know about the prolific personal development blogger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndale LLC
    Release dateFeb 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458145819
    Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography

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      Steve Pavlina - Thomas Baker

      Steve Pavlina: The Unauthorized Biography

      Thomas Baker

      Smashwords Edition

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      Copyright 2010 Thomas Baker.

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      Names have been changed to protect innocent parties.

      Table of Contents

      Forward

      Early Years

      College Years

      Business Years

      Lifestyle Changes

      The Downhill Slope

      Onward Bound

      Criticism

      Forward

      Steve Pavlina describes himself as the most intensely growth-oriented individual you will ever meet. Since the age of 19, when he was almost convicted of felony grand theft auto, Steve has dedicated his life to personal growth. Impassioned by sharing his growth with others, Pavlina has penned more than 700 articles and a book. He has appeared in newspapers across the globe, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Guardian. His self-titled website became the most popular personal development website on the planet, getting millions of hits per month.

      But who is Steve Pavlina? Is he the polymath he purports to be on his blog posts and in his book, or is he the swindling knave his opponents claim he is? Is Pavlina an honest personal blogger, or are his posts driven by the desire to make money, at all costs?

      From his early years at a high school with an abusive priest to his later in life experiments with polyamory and BDSM, this biography tells you all you want to know about the prolific personal development blogger.

      Early Years

      Steven Michael Pavlina was born on April 14, 1971 in Santa Monica, California to financially conservative, Catholic parents who avoided debt, paid down their mortgages, and held lifelong, steady jobs. His mother, Jane, was a math professor and his father, George, was a former altar boy and an aerospace engineer for a GM-owned company. Pavlina’s uncle Edward was a Catholic priest, so it was no surprise that Pavlina’s schooling occurred in private, Catholic schools.

      Pavlina appeared to be a picture perfect Catholic boy. He attended mass and Sunday school, went to church every Sunday, studied religion as part of his everyday school activities, went to optional Catholic retreats, and memorized Catholic prayers. Pavlina’s destiny to live a good Catholic life headed for a safe career in corporate America was cemented from his childhood through his high school years.

      Pavlina became a Boy Scout at 12 or 13 years-old, earning the Ad Altare Dei award from the National Catholic Committee on Scouting for developing a Christian way of life. During his time as a Boy Scout, he learned to snorkel, survive in the wilderness, and shoot a bow and arrow.

      The Boy Scout troop, Pavlina says, became a surrogate family to him; despite all of his accomplishments, he was an unhappy and tormented child. Although his parents provided him with a private school education and a home computer which fueled his interest in programming, he describes this childhood as borderline miserable. He reported tha his happiness at that time on a scale of 1 to 10 as a 4.

      According to Pavlina, his family life was dysfunctional—as kids, he and his siblings thought that the Bundys from Married with Children were a better example of a loving family. I was raised in a very judgmental environment, he says. From my earliest memories, I remember being on the receiving end of a tremendous amount of criticism. The criticism started before Kindergarten and continued throughout high school.

      You can’t do anything right! his mother, Jane would say with disdain. It became her mantra. It didn’t matter whether Pavlina would try to make scrambled egg or bring home a handmade gift from school, nothing was good enough for his mother. In fact, Pavlina felt everything he did was wrong. He was punished with verbal abuse for minor infractions and after years of not being able to please his parents he dove into self-loathing and hatred. I am not a good boy. He would look in the mirror and see ugliness stare back. No wonder they hate me, I’m ugly and useless.

      The self-hatred could have led to major depression later in life, but instead it led to a deeper understanding of the human psyche and the games people play. Even when Pavlina was in elementary school, he began to view life as a game with winners and losers. He believed he was on the losing end. Not only did he receive no love as a child: he gave no love either, rejecting anyone and everyone around him.

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      When Pavlina was 12, something still not known to the public happened at school that would change his views about Catholicism and lead to a revolution in his mind. Around the same age he discovered computers, and became friendly with an atheist classmate, John Swindon.

      Pavlina’s first notion of Swindon was that the boy must have been possessed by a demonic entity or worse: he was destined for an eternity in hell along with unbaptised infants and demons. Afraid that there was something terribly wrong with John, Pavlina started talking to him to find out what. Pavlina expected to

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