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When the U.S. surgeon general declared loneliness an epidemic earlier this year, he explained how disconnectedness is stomping all over our collective mental health in life-shortening ways (we ...
Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum.In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone."
The "Dokkōdō" (Japanese: 獨行道) ("The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone") is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi a week before he died in 1645. It consists of 21 precepts.
"Living alone lets me create my own life and rules," Pat Shea, a 63-year-old copywriter and stand-up comedian who has been living solo for 13 years after getting a divorce, tells Yahoo Life.
Capacity to be alone is a developmentally acquired ability, considered by object relations theory to be a key to creative living. Julia Kristeva sees it as central to an authentic inner life, as well as to creative sublimations in life and art.
Credit: Resuscitation The paper explains that multiple studies recommend this "head-down" position if there's no one to assist and use the Heimlich maneuver.Even if someone is there, this ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
An introvert is likely to enjoy time spent alone and find less reward in time spent with large groups of people. Introverts are easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation from social gatherings and engagement, introversion having even been defined by some in terms of a preference for a quiet, more minimally stimulating external environment. [15]