Steve Pavlina

Stephen ( "Steve" ) Michael Pavlina ( born April 14, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is an American entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author. He runs a blog for personal development and published in 2008 the book Personal Development for Smart People ( German: personal development for smart people ). Pavlina writes about a wide range of topics. Through his lifestyle experiments (eg polyphasic sleep), the mass media were aware of him.

Career

Pavlina was in the early '90s student at the University of California, Berkeley. His performance was poor because he distracted himself with parties and a series of thefts. On 4 February 1991 Pavlina was for theft in Sacramento, California, was arrested and sentenced to 60 hours of community service. He stated that this was the impetus for him to change his life.

Pavlina then studied again at California State University, Northridge, and reached in just three semesters, two degrees - a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science. First Pavlina was founder and CEO of Dexterity Software where he worked as a programmer. Dexterity published the award-winning computer game Dweep, with which he won the 2000 Shareware Industry Award. 2001, the successor Dweep Gold also won the Shareware Industry Award for Best Action / Acarde game. Steve Pavlina 1999 was the Vice President of the Association of Software Professionals and its president the following year. At this time Steve's article in the software development community had already taken an important place. The Hall of Fame describes him as someone with a large and lasting impact on others through his articles and posts.

In 2004, Steve Pavlina started a blog about personal development. His tenure at Dexterity software began to rest until Steve the company on 31 October 2006 concluded, in order to focus full-time on his website. The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth ( German: The universal principle of self-development: personal development for smart people ) On 15 October 2008 his first book Personal Development for Smart People was published.

Website and blog

Pavlinas blog dealt with topics such as personal development and success, confidence and courage, productivity, motivation and goal setting, career, wealth and business and spirituality. Some of his most popular articles are about lifestyle and habits and experiments with it, he gave detailed reports of their experiences in diary form. Examples of this would include raw veganism and Polyamory mentioned. In this regard, polyphasic sleep is his most famous experiment; also in connection with an article on the early rising, which was also featured in the British newspaper The Guardian.

2006, a forum was added to his blog to provide large amounts of comments on his articles own platform.

In December 2010, Pavlina decided to abandon the copyright to his works ( with the exception of his book ) to promote further dissemination. In the course of his articles of volunteers will be translated into other languages.

Personal

In October 2009, Steve announced his separation and divorce from his wife planned Erin Pavlina. According to his own statement Polyamory was one of the motivations for this step after 15 years of marriage.

Works

• Steve Pavlina: The universal principle of self-development: personal development for smart people. 1st edition. Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 2010 ( Original title: Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth, translated by Burkhard Hickisch ), ISBN 978-3-442-21889-9.