The forever alone guy.
Contrary to popular belief, being a solitary person has more advantages than disadvantages.
A (lengthy) Boston Globe article says that an emerging body of research is suggesting that spending time alone is not only important for having a healthy social life, but that it also improves focus, creative thinking, memory, empathy, and even elevates mood.
“John Cacioppo of the University of Chicago, whose 2008 book “Loneliness” with William Patrick summarized a career’s worth of research on all the negative things that happen to people who can’t establish connections with others, said recently that as long as it’s not motivated by fear or social anxiety, then spending time alone can be a crucially nourishing component of life.”
Socrates and other philosophers have said this millennia ago but it’s reassuring to have it reaffirmed by modern cognitive scientists. It lends the idea more credence in today’s society.
