Solitude

The Digital Minimalism book reminded me today that solitude is an important part of life. (Somewhat ironically, I was driving my car while listening to the book.) I do a good job in decreasing phone usage in my life, or at least I think a lot about doing so. However, the other aspect I don’t do a good job on is this:

The author defines solitude as time when your mind is left alone and doesn’t interact with that of others. So, reading books or listening to music doesn’t count. With that definition, I am hardly alone because I am dealing with something or the other - books, music albums or some courses - all the time.

I often think about decreasing my focus areas to a small number of things but somehow end up with too many in no time. This is hard for me, something I’ve realized in the past as well. So, this might sound radical to me but still: what if I stick to just 1-2 things other than work? And every time I am not dealing with those, I allow myself to be bored?