@canion Very true, though I’d wager that it’s not even solitude necessarily that we need, rather calm and quiet. Whether alone or not, it’s nice to turn off the mental noise now and then.
@canion, good stuff! Cal Newport's definition of solitude (which he says stole from the book Lead Yourself First) has always stuck with me. "'solitude' is [as] a subjective state in which you’re isolated from input from other minds."
My solitutde exercise: dishes with podcast or no podcast?