I’ve never met him, but I’m pretty sure that [Steve Pavlina](http://www.stevepavlina.com “The Mouth himself”) is the kind of guy that talks just to hear himself talk. I just suffered through his most recent blog post, and I must admit I agreed with two words in his entire mind-numbing post. I’m not sure why I continue to read it, but [this installment](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/11/how-to-earn-10000-in-one-hour/ “Unbelievably long ramblings of ‘The Mouth’”) of the incoherent ramblings takes the cake.
He talks about the paradigm of thinking of your time in terms of a $/hr. Basically, if you want to make more money think of your time as worth more. So for instance if you currently make $50/hr and you want to make $75/hr then only take work worth $75 or something nutty like that. Oh yeah, the 2 words I agreed with in Steve’s post … “It’s stupid.” However, as I agree with him that the per hour thing is stupid, I think that the remainder of his post is equally as stupid.
Instructing people to expect or plan on $10,000 hours is just plain silly. Even as an entreprenuer. Are they possible? Sure. Likely? No. If you think of your time as worth a set amount to determine what is a waste of time … great, but not to be used as motivation or some sort of subliminal coaxing to make yourself magically make more money. Success is made up of the $50/per hour days.
Actually the majority of the people of the world make much less than $50 per hour, but that is besides the point. Progress is always thinking in terms of growth — not big wins. If you get consumed with the big score you’ll fail before you have the chance to succeed. It is easy to sit up in you’re blogosphere and talk in such unrealistic terms. The real world is out there, but not on his site.
His reasoning is ridiculous in terms of normal everyday human beings. I dare you to read it ([here](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/11/how-to-earn-10000-in-one-hour/ “Unbelievably long ramblings of ‘The Mouth’”)), if you can make it through the whole thing you’ll likely be dumber for it, but you’ll see why today is the day I take stevepavlina.com off my [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/sswedler “My Delicious links”) list.
