How to Be Lonely

The introverts guide to spending time by yourself

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In 2017, U.S. Surgoen General Vivek H. Murthy declared an “epidemic of loneliness”. People all over the world were suffering from spending time on their own, sad in their own company.

John Cacioppo was know as Dr. Loneliness. He pontification that the theory of loneliness goes back 50 million years although other people, like Fay Bound Alberti ague that loneliness is wasn’t know before the nineteenth century.

Why loneliness is bad

Either way, they agreed, loneliness was a bad thing for a human being. To thrive, a human needs companionship. And why? Well according to Malia Mason, psychologist at Columbia University:

“We lack a comfort in just being alone with our thoughts. We’re constantly looking to the external world for some sort of entertainment”

In fact in one study, 67% of male participants shocked themselves when they were in a room by themselves, presumably, according to researchers because they had nothing to do and they were avoiding sitting with their own thoughts.

Loneliness and introversion

There is though, a group of people in the world that rather like being on their own, in fact a study has shown that they do…