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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. However, I think that liberal arts degrees hoodwink 18 year olds. I had no clue at that age what my real priorities were. And saved thousands.

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

Penelope Trunk

If hospitals in NYC did this, there would be a run on grilled cheese ingredients all over the city. And I could not think. 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. They gave me 20.

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

Penelope Trunk

Depends on the line of work (police, hospital, fire brigade?). 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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