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How academic training can interfere with natural thinking

I studied philosophy for six years and now I cannot have a normal conversation without analyzing every assumption and it is exhausting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Intellectual tools have become compulsive patterns that disrupt spontaneous engagement.

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