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#638 When the toilet paper left on the roll is the exact amount you need

November 28, 2018November 14, 2018 Neil Pasricha

toilet paperNope, no awkward, pants-around-the-ankles hopping here.

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Loneliness rates have doubled since the 1980s and Loneliness rates have doubled since the 1980s and Vivek Murthy, former two-time US Surgeon General, says loneliness will be the next major epidemic. So if loneliness is being alone and sad … then what’s being alone and happy? Solitude. A few years ago, I picked up an incredible book called 'Solitude' by Michael Harris, bestselling author and winner of the Governor General's Award for his writing. It blew me away. Why? Because in our era of endless machine-gun blasts at our brains, I feel strongly that the ability to be alone, and to be alone well, is a muscle that is quickly atrophying. Michael shares why we need to develop the strength and capacity to live and be by ourselves and how we go about cultivating a rich interior life. Michael has gone on to tackle our culture of consumerism in his more recent book 'All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy,' and I think after this conversation you’ll agree this true “strength of mind” is a crucial aspect of living an intentional life as we face massive upheavals across many social and community elements of our lives. For this classic chapter of 3 Books I flew to Michael’s apartment in Vancouver, BC where we discuss: How do you cultivate the area between awake and asleep? What does a healthy media diet look like? Why shouldn’t you talk about anything serious over texts? How do parents and children navigate coming out of the closet conversations? And, of course, what are the incredible Michael Harris's 3 most formative books? Let's flip the page back to Chapter 29 now... Listen to the full chapter in my bio @neilpasricha or on YouTube, 3books.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
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