Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.
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