Steven Snyder's Page

About Me/Us:

STEVEN SNYDER was a most unusual kid and grew up to be a most unusual man who has literally changed the lives of tens of thousands of people. For starters:

By the time Steven Snyder was three, he was reading a book a day. In first grade his teacher asked the class if anyone already knew how to read. He was the only one who raised his hand. "How many books have you read, Steven?" she quizzed. "About 1,400," Steven answered quite innocently. Did she believe him? Only after he named about a dozen titles of which he knew the plots.

When Steve was eight, he learned about self-hypnosis and was introduced to the concept of altered states of consciousness. He was instantly fascinated and it quickly became his hobby. He began to read everything that he could find on any inter-related topic.

Then one night, when he was12 years old, he woke up from a dream that suggested he take his two hobbies, reading and self-hypnosis, and do them at the same time. Over the following three years he created and developed a unique accelerated learning program called AlphaLearning which he began teaching professionally in1967at the age of 15.

In 1978, Steven co-founded Live and Learn to help students and teachers "learn how to learn" and to help facilitate the gentle overthrow of the current outdated school system and to assist in the transition to a system of 21st Century Education."

In 1987 Steven began working with YPO: The Young Presidents’ Organization and then Vistage (formally TEC: The Executive Committee), and in 2003 was honored as TEC's “International Speaker of the Year”.

Steve has made close to a thousand presentations for those two organizations and their member companies alone, and has presented seminars in ninety-six countries worldwide.

With radio partner Michael Benner, Steve produces a weekly personal empowerment audio program called "Finding your SELF in Paradise" which is available at www.FocusedPassion.com

Steven is married (in 1999 for the first and only time) to Teresa Allred. A beautiful and accomplished woman, Teresa was the CEO of Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing Inc., the nation’s largest licensed manufacturer of aircraft parts. She and her brother Ted recently sold Ontic and retired. Steve and Teresa now live with their two Golden Retrievers, Kula and Kili, on seventy acres on a cliff overlooking the Ocean on the North Shore of East Maui, in a little Hamlet called Lower Nahiku.

Relationship Status:

Married

Movies

As rarely as I go, most anything is okay with popcorn.

Television

NCIS
Lost
Boston Legal
Rachel Maddow

Music

My Favorite Songwriters

Arlo Guthrie
Bernie Taupin
Billy Joel
Bob Dylan
Bob Seger
Bono
Brian Wilson
Bruce Springsteen
Buddy Holly
Carole King
Cat Stevens
Chuck Berry
Conner Oberst
Dave Davies
Dave Mason
David Crosby
David Gilmour
Don Henley
Elton John
Emmylou Harris
Eric Clapton
Fiona Apple
Garth Hudson
Gary Brooker
George Harrison
Gerry Goffin
Chris Squire
Glenn Fry
Gordon Lightfoot
Grace Slick
Grahame Edge
Graham Nash
Greg Lake
Hal David
Harry Chapin
Ian Anderson
Jack Bruce
Jackson Browne
Jakob Dylan
James Taylor
Jeff Lynne
Jerry Leiber
Jim Morrison
Joan Baez
John Anderson
John Phillips
John Sebastion
John Denver
John Fogerty
John Lennon
John Lodge
John Sebastion
Jon Anderson
Joni Mitchell
Judy Collins
Justin Hayword
Keith Reid
Keith Richards
Kris Kristofferson
Leon Russell
Levon Helm
Marc Cohn
Mark Knopfler
Mary Travers
Mick Jagger
Mike Stoller
Neil Diamond
Neil Young
Paul Kantner
Paul McCartney
Paul Simon
Paul Stookey
Pete Seeger
Peter Gabrial
Peter Townsend
Peter Yarrow
Randy Newman
Ray Charles
Ray Manzarek
Richard Manuel
Rick Danko
Ray Davies
Robbie Krieger
Robbie Robertson
Robert Hunter
Rod Stewart
Roger Waters
Roger McGuinn
Roy Orbison
Scott Clifton
Stephen Stills
Steve Howe
Steve Sargenti
Steve Snyder
Stevie Winwood
Sting
Tim Rice
Tom Petty
Van Morrison
Woody Guthrie

Books

My Favorite Books and Authors

Siddhartha
and other works by
Hermann Hesse

Hamlet
and other works by
William Shakespeare

Huckleberrry Finn
and other works by
Mark Twain

Stranger in a Strange Land
and other works by
Robert Heinlein

Illusions
and other works by
Richard Bach

The Sherlock Holmes Series
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Foundation Trilogy
and other works by
Issac Asimov

The Power of Positive Thinking
and other works by
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The Art of Loving
and other works by
Eric Fromm

As a Man Thinketh
James Allen

Man's Search for Meaning
and other works by
Viktor E. Frankl

Think and Grow Rich
and other works by
Napolean Hill

Psycho Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz

Be Here Now
and other works by
Baba Ram Dass

How to Win Friends and Influence People
and other works by
Dale Carnegie

Brave New World
and other works by
Aldous Huxley

The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior
and other works by
Dan Millman

The Relaxation Response
Dr. Herbert Benson

Man and His Symbols
and other works by
C.G. Jung

Love is Letting Go of Fear
and other works by
Dr. Gerald G. Jampolski

Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alan Cohen

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Awaken the Giant Within
and other works by
Anthony Robbins

The Power of Now
and other works by
Eckhart Tolle

The Silva Mind Control Method
Jose Silva

Seth Speaks
and other works by
Jane Roberts

The Varieties of Religious Experience
and other works by
William James

A Course in Miracles (3 volumes)
Foundation for Inner Peace

The Power of Myth
and other works by
Joseph Campbell

Authentic Happiness
and other works by
Martin Seligman

The Dancing Wu Li Masters
and other works by
Gary Zukov

The Tao of Physics
and other works by
Frijof Capra

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran

Frogs Into Princes
and other works by
Richard Bandler, John Grinder

My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
Sidney Rosen

Multiple Intelligences
and other works by
Howard Gardner

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Emotional Intelligence
and other works by
Daniel Goleman

Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
and other works by
Stephen R. Covey

The Wisdom of the Enneagram
and other works by
Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

The Enneagram in Love and Work
and other works by
Helen Palmer

They Call Me Coach
and other works by
John Wooden

Creative Visualization
Shakti Gawain

On Death and Dying
and other works by
Elisabeth Kuler-Ross

Crack In The Cosmic Egg
and other works by
Joseph Chilton Pearce

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
and other works by
Harold Kushner

The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks

One Minute Manager
and other works by
Ken Blanchard

Influencing With Integrity
Jeanne LaBorde

Good to Great
and other works by
Jim Collins

The Five Love languages
and other works by
Gary Chapman

Getting Things Done
and other works by
David Allen

The Art of Happiness
and other works by
Dalai Lama

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
and other works by
Deepak Chopra

The Nero Wolfe Series
Rex Stout

The Travis McGee Series
and other works by
John MacDonald

The Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Series
and other works by
Faye Kellerman

The Alex Delaware Series
And other works by
Jonathan Kellerman

The Alphabet Series
Sue Grafton

The Spencer Series
and other works by
Robert B. Parker

The Dirk Pitt Series
and other works by
Clive Cussler

Slaughterhouse Five
and other works by
Kurt Vonnegut

The Harry Potter Series
J, K, Rowling

Childhood's End
and other works by
Arthur C. Clarke

The Client
and other works by
John Grishman

Catcher In The Rye
and other works by
J. D. Salinger

Great Expectations
and other works by
Charles Dickens

Murder on the Orient Express
and other works by
Agatha Christie

The Sackett Series
and other works by
Louis L’Amour

For Whom The Bell Tolls
and other works by
Ernest Hemmingway

Heroes

John Wooden
Peaceful People
Philanthropists

Website:

http://www.FocusedPassion.com