{"id":140690,"date":"2021-06-29T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140690"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:22:24","slug":"life-after-academia-with-historian-lisa-munro-6-28-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140690","title":{"rendered":"Life After Academia With Historian Lisa Munro (6-28-21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vgklsp\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vgklsp\",\"div\":\"rumble_vgklsp\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Historian Lisa Munro, https:\/\/www.lisamunro.net\/blog-1\/2018\/7\/1\/failures-of-imagination-post-phd-edition<br \/>\n01:00 Leaving Academia: Loss Grief and Healing, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140408<br \/>\n04:30 Lisa is an adoptee, https:\/\/twitter.com\/llmunro<br \/>\n08:30 Lisa was 38 before she knew her biological parents<br \/>\n22:00 Education promotes conformism<br \/>\n27:00 Education as indoctrination<br \/>\n28:20 Education fads<br \/>\n36:00 Early feelings of rejection set you up for self-sabotage<br \/>\n38:00 Feeling worthy of prosperity<br \/>\n40:00 I&#8217;ll show &#8217;em! https:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/luke_ford\/bio\/l1.html<br \/>\n41:00 Compulsive need to prove, https:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/about-ua\/symptoms-of-underearning\/<br \/>\n45:00 The high price of university learning<br \/>\n46:00 The intellectual life won&#8217;t pay for itself<br \/>\n47:00 Beyond the Academic Ethic by Stephen Turner, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140392<br \/>\n54:00 When Lisa went viral in 2015<br \/>\n55:30 What Lisa got from her doctorate in History<br \/>\n1:02:00 Lisa lives in Mexico<br \/>\n1:03:00 What Lisa learned from therapy<br \/>\n1:09:00 American identity and the lack of fatalism<br \/>\n1:10:30 Lisa on American identity<br \/>\n1:11:00 Americans are direct<br \/>\n1:12:00 The American dream<br \/>\n1:13:00 Lisa&#8217;s doctorate was on cultural relations between Guatemalans and Americans in the 1930s<br \/>\n1:15:00 Mexicans vs Guatemalans<br \/>\n1:18:00 Guatemala, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guatemala<br \/>\n1:24:00 Writer&#8217;s block<br \/>\n1:37:00 Symptoms of underearning, https:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/about-ua\/symptoms-of-underearning\/<br \/>\n1:40:00 Lisa loves the series, The Expanse, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Expanse_(TV_series)<br \/>\n1:43:00 Navigating friendships with people more and less successful<br \/>\n1:44:30 Lisa is a writer<br \/>\n1:46:00 Image management for the writer<br \/>\n1:51:00 Anthropologist heroes<br \/>\n2:00:00 Orals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>00:00 Historian Lisa Munro, https:\/\/www.lisamunro.net\/blog-1\/2018\/7\/1\/failures-of-imagination-post-phd-edition 01:00 Leaving Academia: Loss Grief and Healing, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140408 04:30 Lisa is an adoptee, https:\/\/twitter.com\/llmunro 08:30 Lisa was 38 before she knew her biological parents 22:00 Education promotes conformism 27:00 Education as indoctrination 28:20 Education fads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=140690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140691,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140690\/revisions\/140691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}