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I read this some years ago.. I've since then become very skeptical about his story. The guy makes money off of his blog, he's basically the internet version of a life coach. Writing "inspirational" articles on how to improve your life, with almost nothing to back them up. There's plenty incentive for him to have fabricated this. And back when I was interested in the uberman sleep schedule, he was the only person on the internet I could find who claimed he had done it for more than a couple of weeks

Steve Pavlina is a known charlatan whose lies have been disproved on several occasions.

Further reading: http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/ http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-i...

I don't think he lasted 5 months on his polyphasic regimen for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article.

I'm not debating your position on whether or not Steve did the polyphasic sleep, but none of those links don't really have much actual evidence of him being(or specifically call him) a liar or a charlatan.

"for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article"

Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs.

    EDIT: parent must mean this:

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm

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