· Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes throughout history. Offering experiments and strategies for overturning our fear of solitude, she helps us to practise it without anxiety and encourages us to see the benefits of spending time by ourselves. · I stumbled across Sara Maitland's How to Be Alone in www.doorway.ru and found the topic to be interesting. Since I'm currently single and living alone and find myself enjoying it and struggling with it at the same time, I decided to see what this woman who lives in the Scottish Highlands has to say about the topic. I simply loved the www.doorway.ru by: 1. · Maria Popova, Brainpickings, on topic of how to be alone. It was when the marriage of Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone, ended that she first found solitude —was thrust into it, in fact—and then learned over time to love it. For 20 years now she’s not only lived alone but does so in a remote, sparsely populated part of Scotland.
Sara Maitland at the Back Hill of Bush Bothy, Galloway Forest Park Photograph: Adam Lee/Alamy. What if, instead of a huge disadvantage, being alone were framed as an opportunity for developing the. Sara Maitland quotes Showing of "You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.". ― Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone. 14 likes. Sara Maitland: 'My subconscious was cleverer than my conscious in choosing to live alone' Interview by Kate Kellaway The author of How to Be Alone on the joys of solitude, Skyping - and why.
It was when the marriage of Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone, ended that she first found solitude —was thrust into it, in fact—and then learned over time to love it. For 20 years now she’s not only lived alone but does so in a remote, sparsely populated part of Scotland. (See her previous A Book of Silence.). Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom, and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? In How to Be Alone, Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes throughout history. Offering experiments and strategies for overturning our fear of solitude, she helps us practice it without anxiety and encourages us to see the benefits of spending time. Well, Sara Maitland’s book is about that. About how to stop feeling anxious when your mobile is in the next room. And about how to go on long walks or to the cinema with no company but yourself – and still feel happy. You know, about – “ How to Be Alone.”. Because solitude is not bad.
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