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Steven Snyder

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in Los Angeles, The United States

January 05, 1952

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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 he was three, Steve 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. Did the woman faint? Her knees probably went a bit weak. What would she do with him while she taught her class to read? Guess what. She literally put him in the corner. He was punished for knowing how to read.
This happened 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 he was three, Steve 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. Did the woman faint? Her knees probably went a bit weak. What would she do with him while she taught her class to read? Guess what. She literally put him in the corner. He was punished for knowing how to read.
This happened in the Los Angeles area where he was born and lived with his mother and father and his grandmother and uncle. “Four parents instead of two,” he smiles. When he was almost three, they moved to the San Fernando Valley and his only sibling, a brother, was born.
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.
When Steve was 12, his Father left. He left suddenly; never saying good-bye, and Steve never heard from him again . . . another amazing impact of the darkest kind. “Dealing with my fears of abandonment I spent many years both in and out of therapy searching my soul for the lessons that this experience offered,” he admits. “And, as painful as it has been, it has at least been as valuable as an agent for growth and change.”
Then one night, later that year, 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 teaching program, AlphaLearning, which transformed his life. He started by teaching his friends and then the day after his fifteenth birthday, on January 6, 1967 he began teaching his first class for money. He has been teaching professionally ever since.
In 1978, Steven co-founded Live and Learn, a non-profit 501(c)(3) Educational Foundation in Sherman Oaks, California. Staffed by 15 to 20 employees, the Foundation’s focus was to teach enhanced living and accelerated learning skills through counseling, workshops, and seminars to people (especially school teachers) interested in maximizing their potential. Successful fund raising allowed them to provide scholarships. “Live and Learn’s corporate mission,” Steve explains, “was to help facilitate the gentle overthrow of the school system and to assist society’s transition into a system of 21st Century Information Age Education.”
In 1987, Steven began doing corporate seminars and by 1991 was in such great demand that he closed Live and Learn to focus on his corporate work. In 1988, he began working with the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and in 1990 he began his association with TEC: The Executive Committee. A highly valued speaker for TEC, now Vistage International, the word’s largest CEO organization, Steve has presented to over 1,100 groups and was chosen in 2003 as their International Speaker of the Year and in 2012 was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Along with Michael Benner he hosted the Breakthrough Radio Show, created a series of Breakthrough Audio Journeys on CD, and conducted the life enhancing Breakthrough Seminars. Steve and  Michael’s work together has evolved into a weekly podcast, “Finding yourself in Paradise.” They have a website at www.FocusedPassion.com.
Steve sits on the Board of Directors of Learning Forum International, who along with QLN and SuperCamp have integrated Steve’s accelerated reading and learning methods into the programs and trainings that they present to students and teachers world-wide.
Steven was married (in 1999 for the first an ...more