On Solitude
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On Solitude
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#2Just wanted to share Deresiewicz’s classic on the subject, for those who haven’t stumbled on it before: https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
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#3Interesting that he notes Wallace there.
Wallace was a lonely dude. I still really admire the things he said about leadership and his fiction is truly unique....loneliness is a theme throughout. I think I related to him partially because of that. I recently came across an article about him where he basically couldn't accept that fixing his loneliness wasn't someone else' job.
This seems relevant but it also bothered me and I think he should be cited in the future with this huge caveat in mind. If he wasn't a famous author he would've been known as a creepy stalker.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/th...
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#4Just wanted to share Deresiewicz’s classic on the subject, for those who haven’t stumbled on it before: https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
thanks for sharing this. This is from 2009 and as I listen to it for the first time, seems just as applicable today.
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#5Just wanted to share Deresiewicz’s classic on the subject, for those who haven’t stumbled on it before: https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful talk.
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#6I just listened to this yesterday, very similar themes.
https://onbeing.org/programs/stephen-batchelor-finding-ease-...
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#7Josef Pieper has written a couple of books ("Leisure: the Basis of Culture" and "Happiness and Contemplation") about solitude and contemplation that are worth a look.
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#8Of all the writings on solitude that I’ve come across, almost all are from the male perspective. Anybody know of some good female/other writings on the subject? I have daughters, and I’d like to be able to better relate to them on this.
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#9The author mentions that his technique is not meditation, but his description is very similar to zen meditation ; just sitting in a state of awareness.
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#10Of all the writings on solitude that I’ve come across, almost all are from the male perspective. Anybody know of some good female/other writings on the subject? I have daughters, and I’d like to be able to better relate to them on this.
Carson McCullers?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter to start