Taking yourself out for pancakes is a test. If you can’t enjoy your own company for one breakfast, start there.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Enjoying your own company is a skill rather than a personality type, and it is easy to find out you have not built much of it yet. An hour alone with food and no phone exposes the gap straight away: either the time is pleasant or you spend it hunting for something to fill it. Knowing which is true is more useful than avoiding the experiment.
Take yourself out for breakfast this week, alone, with no screen for the first ten minutes. If it feels uncomfortable, that is the result, and repetition softens it. Being decent company for yourself pays off nearly everywhere else.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Could you sit through a whole meal alone without reaching for distraction?
MORE IN SOLITUDE & SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- Watch how you act the first time you have a little power. Team captain, shift lead, oldest at home. That’s character…
- Envy is information. It’s pointing at something you want and haven’t admitted yet.
- When things go wrong, some people get loud, some go silent, some get busy. Know your default before it picks for you.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.