# Why we owe it to ourselves to spend quiet time alone every day - Host: [ideas.ted.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/ideas.ted.com/) - Saved: May 21, 2018 (2018-05-22T02:48:11Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb8f67894541/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb8f67894541.json ## What Jamie wrote I can attest to feeling this and know many friends, particularly technologists, who do as well. I've referred to this as "digital fatigue" in the past. > The destruction of our inner selves via the wired world is an even more recent, and more subtle, phenomenon. The loss of slowness, of time for reflection and contemplation, of privacy and solitude, of silence, of the ability to sit quietly in a chair for fifteen minutes without external stimulation — all have happened quickly and almost invisibly. I believe this is part of the reason people are seeking out practices like meditation in seemingly larger numbers than the past. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT55: Weekly Thing #55 / May 26, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/55/), Featured Links 🏅 ## Same host - [The five types of mentors you need in your life](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7bc60428b607/) (ideas.ted.com, November 1, 2018) ## Saved the same week - [How to make journaling in Day One even better with automation – The Sweet Setup](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6bf401868b9e/) (thesweetsetup.com, May 21, 2018) - [The Cult of the Root Cause - Reinertsen & Associates](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bbd1f822a146/) (reinertsenassociates.com, May 21, 2018) - [NumWorks - The graphing calculator that makes learning math easier](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7977de83b982/) (numworks.com, May 21, 2018) - [Email, the Micro-Meetings Eating Our Days – 500ish Words](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e69101964ee8/) (500ish.com, May 21, 2018) - [Microsoft reveals Xbox Adaptive Controller for players with disabilities - Polygon](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f95ee23c6932/) (polygon.com, May 21, 2018) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-owe-it-to-ourselves-to-spend-quiet-time-alone-every-day/