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How to be alone well

“We are so frightened of our own company that we will accept almost anyone else's.”

Distinguish solitude from loneliness, then practise it on purpose — with a plan, a long walk, and no feed to escape into.

Solitude is where thinking happens; loneliness is what fills the gap when we never learned to sit in it.

The playbook

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The mistakes — what people get wrong

Filling every quiet minute with a feed and then wondering why you feel unrested.
Solitude sliding into weeks of withdrawal — that's a signal to reach out, not to go deeper.

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