If you can’t sit ten minutes alone without a screen, get to know the person you keep avoiding.

Constant input leaves no room for your own thoughts to surface, and after a while the silence itself starts to feel like something to escape. What is waiting in there is rarely dramatic. It is the unprocessed pieces of your own week, and they stay unprocessed for as long as they are never given a quiet moment.

Try ten minutes with nothing: no music, no phone, no task to hide behind. It is uncomfortable at first and then it is not. The point is not discipline, it is discovering that your own company is survivable and usually better than expected.