My PhD was a 7-year meditation - by Adrienne Minh-Chau Le
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On the lessons that scholarly life taught me
In my early- to mid-twenties I was living and striving in New York City. I was a Yale graduate, a writer, a communications consultant, an activist. I volunteered in prisons and community orgs, and kept up with all the prestige press—the Times, the New Yorker, the Economist, the Atlantic. I wanted to be smart and successful so I could help solve the world’s biggest problems. At some point that kind of striving no longer felt like enough. I grew disillusioned with activism and found myself in a job that any intelligent, hardworking person could fill. I was decently happy, but not deeply…
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