Remove loneliness
article thumbnail

Autism is a label that means “I’m interesting”

Penelope Trunk

My safe space is the comments section here on my blog where the only social rule is: be interesting. Loneliness is autism. That is, until the honeymoon glow turns to marital glower and loneliness seems hard to separate from choice of spouse. But I discovered that loneliness is a neurological disorder.

IT 52
article thumbnail

What a good career coaching session really looks like

Penelope Trunk

Some neurotypical men read this blog. He tells me people watching does not help loneliness. Remember Whitney , the woman who annotated my blog post to show the white privilege? Then we solve their problem and we are Autism friends. I like coaching people who have Autism because they’re like me. Okay not everyone.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Reading fiction helps your career, but reading poetry helps more

Penelope Trunk

It’s interesting to me that genre fiction — sci-fi, mystery, and political satire, for example — do not increase our empathy , and exposure to nonfiction correlates with loneliness and lack of social support. This is a career blog, and reading poetry will help your career. But what about poetry? I had to read it.

Career 94
article thumbnail

The Evolution of Work: Unveiling 10 Hybrid Workforce Best Practices

Vantage Circle

Reaping the benefits will require you to take the necessary practices that we will go through later in this blog. In addition, employees working remotely might be pushed to loneliness and isolation. However, your approach may take a declining turn if you are not cautious and do not address the challenges.

article thumbnail

Secrets of successful yoga studios, and tactics to examine ideas that suck

Penelope Trunk

Like, I have to write blog post titles that will rank high in Google searches instead of writing the titles I feel most like writing. Yoga classes are like blogs: the information is a commodity and the personality is the differentiator. I’ve been on a yoga rampage —going to yoga every day for two weeks.

article thumbnail

How to cope with the need for external validation

Penelope Trunk

If you read this blog for even just a tiny bit of time you know there will be no beating around the bush. I think probably she is just lonely and she deals with loneliness by seeking external validation. So with the remaining 50 minutes I do career coaching about non-career problems. I love talking with the people who call.

article thumbnail

Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Creating Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Submit your teamwork related blog posts and answers to that question here! Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. Lisa Kohn from Thoughtful Leaders Blog shares a challenge that teams sometimes face. David shares how you can Own the Ugly and show them they can trust you. Follow David. Martha Beck.