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Being an expert takes time, not talent | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

I would not normally bother to tell you all three authors for one article in my blog. Today the standard for being an international success at anything is so high that the authors say you need to spend at least ten years working in a very focused, everyday way on the thing you want to be great at. This is not a medical journal.

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Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.

Penelope Trunk

I tell Now Magazine (I think it’s basically People magazine for the UK audience) to call back after I got the kids off to school. Which the Guardian wants done in the next 20 hours. Now magazine wants to know if they can send a photographer to take a photo of my kids. Mainstream media stinks.) And then the phone kept ringing.

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Check-up for self-delusion | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Kids who play football in high school are more likely to die from that than drunk driving or guns. The problem is that a little weird is normal, but Temple is weird in a way that makes her a statistical improbability. Everyone tries to isolate themselves from things that drive them crazy. And people cheer.

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Do you overemphasize happiness? | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

The first thing I have to grapple with, besides having spent the last three years of my life completely enthralled and ensconced in the happiness research from positive psychologists , is if I don’t want a happy life, what sort of life do I want? Posted to: Fulfillment | Knowing yourself January 14th, 2010 Del.icio.us

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