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Webinar on Friday, Wedding on Saturday | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

PS: I am pretty sure that anyone who thinks that someone's life can "jump the shark" lacks imagination and critical thinking skills. They're a bit industrial in appearance, but I have always wondered if they could be helpful for my some of my ASD students.

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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. That is brave and most of all intellectually honest. anger irritability etc. how does this translate in real time?

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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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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

But most white people – at least in this part of the world – are not forced to think about race at all. Posted by Carol G on January 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm | permalink | Reply Connecting this to Halloween demonstrates a lack of critical thinking.

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