Sitting With Yourself

Chad Wakefield
2 min readMar 13, 2021

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Image from Britanica.com

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote the French philosopher Blaise Pascal.

This is a quote that I heard Naval Ravikant speak several times.

Image from Tim.blog

Personally I know this is right. For me. Focused on just me. Not mapping this to the rest of the world, because I don’t know how they are feeling, I can only speculate.

I have spent a lot of my near 47 years on this planet alone. Movies, concerts, playing as a child, traveling, and even much of my time around my family. Alone either physically or in my own head removed from them.

But in a room. Quietly. Alone? Not so much.

What are my problems? This is not an open therapy session to the world.

But I can tell you that the noise I have adapted to has not helped me.

The things and the voices of others that I have permitted to permeate. Have not delivered much value. My own thoughts often have not either.

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