Steve Pavlina and I shared a fun and insightful conversation covering a wide range of growth stories and a ton of laughs…instant best-of show!
Steve Pavlina Podcast: Steve's mission is
- explore, clarify, and elegantly codify conscious growth
- challenge the status quo, to take intelligent risks, and to experiment
- strengthen our global society's alignment with truth, love, and power
- advance conscious growth ambitiously, tenaciously, and sustainably
- balance inspired innovation, co-creative teamwork, and disciplined execution
- progressively embrace the highest standards of excellence and mastery
- lead and inspire with authority, audacity, playfulness, and love
In short, his mission is to help you discover your truth, explore your desires, and develop your power.
Steve Pavlina Podcast: Family upbringing focused on mental performance
- His parents and family were very focused on all things mental and intellectual.
- Steve is not interested in having a “sexy” body, but being able to do new fun things.
- All through high school, he was vrooming not interested in anything athletic or related to using his body.
- In college he veered…deciding to study martial arts. He focused on creating new psychical abilities like braking boards and learning to spar, and do amazing kicks.
- In the 90's Steve ran the LA marathon.
- He exercised everyday for 25 minutes for 1 year…he didn't miss one day.
- His diet also evolved from Standard American Diet to vegetarian to vegan.
- Steve finds it more effective to set “FUN” fitness goals instead of boring fitness goals.
- The benefits of improving your body also improve your mental performance and your emotional health.
- Great book called “Spark”
- Cool Sleep app for the iPhone and Android called Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
Steve Pavlina Podcast: Vrooming with a Fear of public speaking
- Starting in the 1st grade he was terrified to speak in front of people.
- He had a good friend who was not afraid, but very calm speaking in front of people.
- He faced his fears. He took opportunities to speak while working in the computer game community.
- He found it more fun to speak about topics he wanted to talk about, and it was less frightening.
- There was a real reward, when people thanked him for sharing his knowledge.
Labeled an introvert as a small child
- Before high school he was labeled a shy kid, and an introvert.
- He went to a high school that was focused on academics, so being smart made you a cool kid.
- Because Steve was smart and a high achiever, he started to become more of an extrovert in High School
- Steve eventually joined Toastmaster's and was a member for about 5 and 1/2 years.
- He eventually joined that National Speakers Associations for a while.
Vrooming with a fear of touch
- Grew up very much touch adverse.
- His family didn't hug much out of affection.
- Friendly and affectionate touch was something that was alien to him as a child.
- In High School he remembers seeing girls greet boys with a hug, and that seemed very strange to him.
- People would never do that with Steve.
- Steve figures now that people can get a sense of whether someone is open to hugs and affection.
- In college, while studying with a woman friend, his friend began to stroke his forearm.
- Steve freaked out and made and excuse to leave and it was awkward.
- Steve avoided her for the rest of the semester.
- His veer was very gradual, he realized he was bad and accepting touch.
- He started pushing himself to touch more.
- Steve was like the therapist in the movie 50/50.
- Once he started he wanted to veer to master touch and enjoy touching.
- Steve tells the story of Daan Buckinx who learned to hug more during Steve's workshops.
- He was getting strangers to hug him in less one second.
- In 2010 he got cancer, but still came to Steve's Workshop.
- Because of Daan's example, Steve started to hugging hello to everyone when they show up to his workshop.
- The hugging really changed the event and warmed up more quickly.
- Daan pasted away in 2011, and his facebook page is still getting posts about hugging.
Veering to life on the road
- Steve and his Girlfriend have started downsizing their possessions to get down to only owning things that will fit in a laptop bag or a carry on bag.
- When Steven sells his house, then they will start living and working on the road staying with friends, hotels, or Air BnBs.
- His girlfriend has already moved out of her permanent house and is now in Paris, she's travelling in Europe.
- Experimenting with travelling for free moving from invitation to invitation.
- He plans on staying each place two or three months.
- For Steve it's a temporary thing to travel full-time for a while.
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