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How to hit a wall at work, with grace | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Keeping one's critical thinking capacity on all the time – not hiding it behind laws or rules of polite discourse – is key to doing anything different or better. I tend not to think about my career path. That is brave and most of all intellectually honest. anger irritability etc.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

It used to be that people only did writing and critical thinking for school. So they needed school to teach them communication skills and critical thinking skills. And I could have gotten all of those read/writing/critical thinking skills simply by reading, writing, and joining writers groups on my own.

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