Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Powerful people do not have good listening skills. Only 4% of people are ENTJ s, but almost all Fortune 500 CEOs are ENTJs. So maybe instead of building your listening skills, you should buy the book How to Talk so People Listen. Why would I do that when interrupting people is so much faster? They hate to listen.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

So when I’m on the farm I just wear one of the farmer’s coats. When I first met the farmer I thought it was hilarious to have a hat that said lubricants. And we took 500 photos and spent hours each day cuddling with the chicks under the cozy glow of the heat lamp the farmer set up in my garage. It’s from Amsoil Lubricants.

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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. You start with meditation and stick with it.

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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

MARCH 16, 2010

The important thing about reading a book like Stainer's is that if I read people telling me that I should not do bullshit work all day, then I am more likely to hold myself accountable to my A list. I coach so many people who tell me they can’t move forward because they don’t know where they are going. The truth is, I have goals.

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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. But I would have paid her.

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