Try it. It is hard work, but good exercise.
THE VALUE OF SOLITUDE
We inflict a piece of advice upon our readers. It is intended
especially for the young, who have still to get their growth,
whose characters and possibilities are forming.
GET AWAY FROM THE CROWD WHEN YOU CAN. KEEP YOURSELF TO YOURSELF,
IF ONLY FOR A FEW HOURS DAILY. ----
Full individual growth, special development, rounded mental
operations--all these demand room, separation from others,
solitude, self-examination and the self-reliance which solitude
gives.
The finest tree stands off by itself in the open plain. Its
branches spread wide. It is a complete tree, better than the
cramped tree in the crowded forest.
The animal to be admired is not that which runs in herds, the
gentle browsing deer or foolish sheep thinking only as a fraction
of the flock, incapable of personal independent direction. It's
the lonely prowling lion or the big black leopard with the whole
world for his private field that is worth looking at.
The man who grows up in a herd, deer-like, thinking with the
herd, acting with the herd, rarely amounts to anything. ----
Do you want to succeed? Grow in solitude, work, develop in
solitude, with books and thoughts and nature for friends.
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