Embrace Solitude

Sherry Turkle, author of the book Alone Together:

“You end up isolated if you don’t cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When w...

Solitude is a description of a fact: You are on your own. Loneliness is a negative emotional response to it. People think they will be lonely, and that is the problem – the expectation is also now a cultural assumption.

But make the assumption that you’ll be finding the time and s...

The way to minimize bad decisions, focus on things that matter, think independently, and have a life of freedom is: Sitting in solitude.

Thinking takes time, space and energy and we don’t do ourselves any favours by being constantly distracted or interrupted by the world. ...