Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Michael Stainer, who writes The Great Work Blog , once told me that if you are not annoying someone you are not doing anything new. 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. I think this is true.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

The article that I’m attached to is The Making of an Expert by Anders Ericsson , Michael Prietula and Edward Cokely. And people who practice very hard every day start to have a sense of who can be a coach who is capable of helping them succeed, and who is a coach they have outgrown. Learn from people around you, pick more than one.

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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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