The Benefits of Being Alone

In How to Tutor Your Own Child, I emphasize the educational value of simplicity, silence, and boredom.  Along those same lines, I was struck by this quote about the benefits of aloneness from “The Writer as Psychotic,” an article by author Philip Yancey: Brain scans reveal that aloneness is central to the creative impulse; sensory deprivation allows the synaptic loops … Read more