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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

781: Are You a Lightworker or a Darkworker by Steve Pavlina

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Steve Pavlina shares the difference between a lightwkrker and a dark worker, plus why it makes a difference to choose. Episode 781: Are You a Lightworker or a Darkworker by Steve Pavlina (Career Advice). Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers on the Internet, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to his website, StevePavlina.com. He has written more than 1300 articles and recorded many audio programs on a broad range of self-help topics, including productivity, relationships, and spirituality. Steve has been quoted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Los Angeles Daily News, Self Magazine, The Guardian, and countless other publications. He's also a frequent guest on popular podcasts and radio shows. The original post is located here: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/are-you-a-lightworker-or-a-darkworker Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 781.

0:03.6

Are you a Light Worker or a Dark Worker by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com?

0:09.2

And I'm Justin Molak, your very own personal narrator.

0:11.9

Welcome to Optimal Living Daily or OLD for short,

0:15.1

where I narrate the best blogs I can get permission from to help you optimize your life.

0:20.1

I'll give this intro nice and short for you, so let's get right to it

0:22.8

and start optimizing your life.

0:25.5

Are you a Light Worker or a Dark Worker by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com?

0:34.7

Asking this question is like asking whether you're a Black Belt in Karate or Jujitsu.

0:40.7

Most likely you are neither, since most people never make such a commitment in their entire lives.

0:45.7

Light workers and dark workers combine probably account for less than 1% of the population.

0:51.0

Becoming a Light Worker or Dark Worker isn't something that just happens to you.

0:54.8

It's a conscious choice, one of the vast majority of people, never make.

0:58.9

You may have leanings towards one polarity or the other,

1:01.5

and you can certainly experiment with both polarities as much as you desire.

1:05.2

But becoming a Light Worker or a Dark Worker means making a special commitment to mastery of a single polarity.

1:12.4

What does it mean to polarize?

1:14.9

When you decide to polarize, you're making a commitment to living a certain type of life.

1:19.5

It is similar to making a commitment to a particular field that takes a long time to master,

1:24.2

such as training for the Olympics, becoming a concert pianist, or becoming a grandmaster at chess.

1:30.1

You aren't just going to wake up one day, discover that,

1:32.3

oh yeah, you're a 10-degree Black Belt.

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