Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 21, 2009

I know because so many people tell me that social media is a waste of their time. They’re wasting their time, and continuing to make mistakes, because there’s a set of common lies that people believe about social media. With LinkedIn, people can tell that I am a very connected person. LinkedIn is great. I’m on LinkedIn.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook People at work are asking me why I am not working as many hours as I used to. Now I see it’s a problem for people who think they will get fired for being unpleasant. Or for people who think their kids will grow up and hate them for being emotionally unpredictable. He is crying.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

People who tell me I’ve jumped the shark. Honestly, I had never even heard this idiom until people started writing it in my comments section. People who tell me I should record the webinars. People at my office who wonder why I’m not there. I know I should. But I don’t control it. Ryan Paugh does.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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. What drives people to sign up at Brazen Careerist anyway? I’m going into our 4pm meeting and I need a summary of your position.) Real honesty can be ugly to some people. What early show?

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Where Seth makes a living as a high-paid speaker by republishing a compendium of blog posts every two years, Dave can make a living as the intelligentsia by repackaging other peoples’ soft porn. So we’d hang out in my bagel shop, usually with way too much food on our plates because I was bulimic and she was a hoarder, and the food was free.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I’m pretty sure that the people who pay attention to happiness research are actually happier people. Let me tell you now, I am not a huge fan of the book. The thing about reading stories about people's lives is that we like conflict. And happiness begets happiness.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 22, 2009

So I waited until a day when the farmer and I were holding hands, walking between rows of corn higher than our heads. It’s taken me months to tell people. I remember the principal telling us that the top 500 kids in our graduating class would go to colleges where most would be the valedictorians of their class. That’s not me.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The culmination of my four-year obsession with happiness research is that I think people need to choose between an interesting life or happy life. Minus one Interesting people raise the bar on themselves. Plus one Sixty percent of our ability to be happy is predetermined by our genes.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

He said, “City people probably think so. Before there were animals there was the flag, rising above the dirt ring, and the announcer saying everyone should sing the Star Spangled Banner to honor “the flag that protects our troops, and our churches and our great country.” But most farmers don’t.” I looked at the kids.

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