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Steve Pavlina (born April 14, 1971) is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site stevepavlina.com and the book ''Personal Development for Smart People''. ==Background== Steve was born and raised in Los Angeles, the eldest of four kids. During his childhood, Steve went to a private Jesuit high school.〔 On January 27, 1991 Pavlina was arrested for grand theft in Sacramento, California and given 60 hours of community service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Public Case Access System ) ((archive url ))〕 He claims that this was the impetus he needed to turn his life around, he also claims that he was let off a much worse sentence owing to a mistake in the legal process.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overcoming Depression )〕 Prior to starting his personal development site, Pavlina founded Dexterity Software, an independent computer game developer and publisher. He described in a blog post how he transitioned from one identity (as a game publisher, forum participant etc.) into a public speaker and self-help blogger, by removing shortcuts from his desktops and favorites, reducing his gamer-related contacts and obligations and e-mail and relationships so that he was surrounded by an environment that completely reinforced the new identity. Steve Pavlina served as Vice President of the Association of Software Professionals (ASP) in 1999〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASP Hall of Fame )〕 and President of the ASP in 2000.〔 By this stage, Steve's writings in the software development community were already having some impact. The ASP's Hall of Fame page describes him as having had "a significant, lasting influence on others via his articles and postings".〔 In 2004, Steve Pavlina began a web site and blog dedicated to personal development, StevePavlina.com ("Personal Development for Smart People"). Dexterity Software went dormant at this time and on October 31, 2006, Steve closed Dexterity Software in order (he said) to focus full-time on the website and blog.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Halloween Updates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dexterity Software has closed )〕 On October 15, 2008, Hay House published Pavlina's book ''Personal Development For Smart People''. The book expands upon several topics featured on his blog. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Pavlina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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