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When advanced education disconnects you from your original passion

I'm in graduate school studying something I used to love, but writing my thesis feels like performing someone else's idea of intelligence and I've lost connection to why I cared.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The academic machinery has transformed your genuine curiosity into a performance of scholarship that feels increasingly meaningless.

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