Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Or I’m not fair to David Dellifield. I want you to recall that when I was growing up, the police came to our house pretty frequently. And, in fact, to our hotel rooms. And you might be interested to know that when rich people trash a hotel room they do not get thrown out of the hotel. I tell myself it gets me nowhere.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 7, 2023

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you’ll be fine.” But for some people, the emotions are debilitating. Could negative emotions cause physical changes in our bodies? Saliba says, “The number of synapses firing in our bodies decreases in times of stress. We add another strand to our neural connection.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The researchers were Dr. Jacob Goldenberg, Dr. David Mazursky and Dr. Sorin Solomon of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. If you're tempted to dismiss advertising as a fairly menial form of creativity, far removed from the lofty realms of the fine arts, you may be interested to hear of the work of composer and music professor David Cope.

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Crestcom

APRIL 29, 2022

Peter is passionate about enabling people to unlock their natural talents. He took his years of practical experience to co-author Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team with Simon and David Mead , published in September 2017. Which people, I mean, I know they wanna hear more.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

People who lost a parent in one group. People who escaped down a stairwell in another group. I was in the group of people who got hit by flying body parts. The first thing I noticed in group is that some people told their story over and over again. Other people didn’t have very much to say. Sorted by trauma.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 14, 2013

” I tell Melissa, “If you’re going to move to New York then David should put some of his huge salary in your bank account.” If you’re going to complain about David not giving me money, don’t use David’s name.” So I’ll just tell everyone: David is smart.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Many people buy books they wish they were reading and then do not read them. Other people are tortured by the obsessive need to repurpose books. Like David Bouley turning books into bricks. I stole books from our family bookstore. ” “Fine. I am tortured by my books. I have others. So I stole them.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

So I get this book in the mail – The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World – and for some reason I find myself reading it during violin practice. She says, “One of the biggest time sucks in our lives is saying ‘yes’ to something we should have declined. Busy is not fine. Someone asks, “How are you?”

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

For example, we go out to our forest (a five-minute walk from our house) once or twice a week. Because people compliment you only on stuff they think you don’t know. And, look, here is research to show that people like research.) There is nothing to do, really, where we live. This makes sense to me.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Countless studies show people would rather have pleasant and personable co-workers than a co-worker who is always right. I know some people say the answer they think would be good manners instead of the right answer. I get sidetracked by insisting on telling people what they don’t know. This not because they can’t do the work.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here are five other counter-intuitive principles I have used to figure out who to listen to when it comes to my own career: Listen to people who hate you. People ask me all the time how I put up with the level of criticism this blog draws. The most important piece of self-knowledge is that our problems are not unique.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Many people assume this is because Gen Y doesn’t care about salary. Anyone can go to a place like Payscale and find out what other people in a similar geographic location are getting paid for a similar job. So for Gen Y, going to a company that pays fair wages is like going to a company that hires people who aren’t white.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 25, 2010

I know that people say I have an odd take on the rules, but I think I'm usually right, I'm just more literal and more blunt than most people. Lots of people do, probably, but frequently they just think they're "bad at math." As for not being normal, please remember that great people are not normal.

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Lateral Action

MAY 4, 2009

He brought the necessary perspiration to the Dreamer's imagination: [Our success] was built by hard work and enthusiasm, integrity of purpose, a devotion to our medium, confidence in its future, and, above all, by a steady day-by-day growth in which we all simply studied our trade and learned. And the fine detail?

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 11, 2010

Do more people sign up if the title sounds like a Nancy Drew mystery ?) Except Andrew Shell , who said it was funny and funny is all people care about. link] In our last video chat, Penelope mentioned that leaving comments in blog posts by high-profile bloggers is a good way to get attention. What is up?????

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Some people turn to alcohol when they are lost. But the topic of the magazine is being lost, and finding beauty in being lost, and thank goodness someone is making me feel like I am going to be fine, one day. For some people with Asperger Syndrome, this looks like obsessing about trains. Find beauty in the process of being lost.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Learn what works for other people, and practice in an honest setting. People blog about fighting with a spouse , and they even do real-time public spousal fighting on Facebook. When we see other people arguing, we get better at doing it ourselves. Because we’re never quite sure when to give in and when to stand our ground.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 26, 2010

Posted by john on April 26, 2010 at 9:21 pm | permalink | Reply You "work in higher education" and are lecturing people about the real world? I've yet to meet anyone who works in education and knows what the real world is other than the people they are educating. Yes, they know a lot about their students.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

If you’re wondering, some of the posts that brought in more than 400 comments are: Five time management tricks I learned from Tim Ferriss I hate David Dellifield. Here are some firsts for me during the past year: First (mis)use of alcohol as a career tool: Try to give more hugs to more people at work. Now I don’t feel so obligated.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 20, 2010

My son said, "People don't dress up on farms." " I said, "The important thing is that I have the three people here who I love the most." thanks for sharing this Penelope, all the best, from our family to yours! I think it begins to feel weird that we are a family in our offline world.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2009

People at work do not say anything to me like, “Sorry you got dumped and seemed to have stopped working.” Ryan Paugh , our community manager, calls me to say that he thinks I need to start having someone look at what I post in the group before I post it. There is a shower in our building. Can you use a blog as a dating site?

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

People like examples. But my point is that it’s very hard to do some extraordinary triumph without taking some extraordinary risk or making an odd judgment that other people would not make. When I have been on the cusp of huge success, there have always been people to help me. So I wrote that. And then I felt bad.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

I’m going to have to ask Ryan Healy, or even Ed, our CEO, why. There are few laptops in our future. But I am feeling fearless, thinking that if I am simply honest about what’s happening, I’ll be fine. "Truth in all its glorious mucus" is a fine and rare thing, offering uncut gems that we mine for ourselves.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This post is for all the people who think Twitter is stupid but wish they didn’t. Twitter lets you find people like you. Twitter helps solve this problem because you can find people like you. Twitter is a live index of people and the weirdness we harbor, which is a gift to the world of loneliness. Do a search.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Fortunately, Ed, our CEO , who is all over me to start doing these video chats, has come up with the idea that the banner ad on my blog, which surely none of you even notices because it never changes, will now announce the weekly topic and the weekly time. So while you may have a little trouble adjusting, we're fine out here.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 3, 2010

In that vein, life is the process of expanding our love and our knowledge, and I suppose, our hate. On top of that, people who use sarcasm think they are being funny, but this is a poor man’s humor; because comedy is about timing. You say it, then there’s a beat, and then people laugh. This is not a gray-area area.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

To give you a sense of how much I can’t deal with it, I almost did not graduate college because I had too many library fines. The only thing I found out from Google is that people with Asperger’s self-mutilate as a way to focus away from what is overwhelming. It’s always the fat people who say that. So it’s like cutting.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So many of the questions we grapple with in our life are about this very type of risk taking. If you ask people at the end of their lives what their biggest regret is, it’s common for the regret to center around not taking more risks. The same is true of younger people. People bounce back faster than they expect.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The basic idea was to focus on the common needs of the people rather than focusing on the difference. But with today’s technology and mindset of the people, small markets tend to be more beneficial for both small and large businesses. The segmentation of a big market is fine, but multiple segmentation in the same area is not.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

We each have a primary question in our lives. They lack a sensitivity that many people require in order to listen. Which leads me to our ongoing battle. People think their work situation is so complicated and I have to understand all the motivators. I learned this when I was a graduate student in English.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

But for someone with Asperger's, it's not enough to deal with sensory integration dysfunction; in order to succeed at the workplace, you need some guidelines for bridging the gap between other peoples' social skills and your own. Spend limited amounts of time with people. Get along with people for a little.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

He expressed frustration that I still had not dealt with the fact that our windows are painted shut. 3. The social fabric of a small town is tight—people do not rely on the police for anything. She faxed my forms to some magical central repository of paperwork for people who have warrants out for their arrest.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 16, 2010

I wrote my book because I did not have a road map and I am wanted other people to have a road map to do a career like I did. I'm dependent on other people to take photos. Believe me, no one likes to read blog posts about people who are smug about how they have solved all the problems of the world. It was a scary visit.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

But the only alone time I have in my day is the time I’m not with the kids, and if I spend my alone time with other people, then I don’t have alone time and I start to panic, and I do things like tell the guy in the cube next to me that he can’t talk to me. I don’t want to talk to people.” I spill more than other people?” “Yes.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

A lot of people tell me that my posts about how to approach social situations if you have Asperger Syndrome are helpful to people who are introverts. That might be true, in that both types of people need to limit their exposure to social situations. But the difference is that people with Asperger’s are disabled socially.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 30, 2010

Here’s a tidbit: I always check out people who link to me; blogging is not only a tool for gauging one’s self-discipline, but also gauging one’s self-absorption. The people of those time periods were doing something new and innovative with their color schemes, their music, their language, their fashion. This'll be good.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Last week, in addition to being lost at work, I was lost trying to cope with the farmer ending our engagement. People cut me a lot of slack at the office. So I’m just going to tell you that I have demonstrated for Ed , our new CEO, what Ryan does that makes me hate him, and Ed has said that I’m nuts. He sounded fine to me.”

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