How to beat the competition (Steve Pavlina)

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I'm always mystified when Steve Pavlina posts get voted up onto the front page. He does a great job of self-promotion, but I have a hard time reading his stuff because he goes on and on, and he has that whole 11:11 thing on his web page.

If you are not familiar with 11:11 then read Uri Geller's web site: http://www.uri-geller.com/articles/11.htm Benford's Law would tell us to expect to see numbers beginning with 1 a lot and hence it's no surprise that the number 11 seems to turn up a lot. Ooh. Cue the spooky music.

That's just another example of my law: "To idiots, any sufficiently simple explanation is indistinguishable from magic"

While I generally agree that Steve Pavlina has jumped the shark (when he started pitching that self-affirmation guy (whatever his name was)), he does have some good articles from back in the day.

His 10 reasons you should never get a job is one of my favorite motivator articles: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-shou...

Like you say, if we can learn anything from Steve, it's how to promote ourselves. The guy is either really good at it (if he makes what he claims to make) or really good at faking it. (Is there a difference on the internet?)

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