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Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Communicating Your Experiences

As you delve ever more deeply into your chosen area of study, you inevitably leave behind the “territory” of the cliché, and begin to discern the borders of understanding. Yet, when you attempt to communicate your initial and clearly modest achievements, you find, at first surprisingly, and then disappointingly, that these seem to be unintelligible to everyone else.

Real understanding cannot be solely the achievement of contributing individuals, as it is essentially a social undertaking. So, how do we bridge that gap?