How to Be Comfortable Being Alone
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Most people on the planet today are terrified of being alone. And yet, there are multiple benefits that come to the leader who carries the wisdom of being alone more often in this noisy world. I'm so very excited to share this fresh episode of The Mastery Sessions with you, as I know it will bring some super valuable ideas to the way you work, as well as the way you live.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Mastery Sessions. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma, and welcome to this Mastery Session, |
| 0:10.0 | and here is my opening question. |
| 0:12.0 | How good are you being alone? |
| 0:15.0 | You look at the great geniuses, you look at the great women and men of the world, |
| 0:19.4 | you look at the most creative people, you look at people who are building great businesses, |
| 0:24.1 | they all have one thing in common. They spend a lot of time thinking and you will never |
| 0:28.9 | get your best insights in a noisy restaurant or being surrounded by your best friends. |
| 0:36.0 | We live in a world that in many ways says, |
| 0:38.0 | well, if you want to be liked and if you want to fit in, |
| 0:41.0 | make sure you have a lot of people around you and your life is layered with |
| 0:46.3 | lots of complexity and shiny toys and bells and whistles. |
| 0:50.5 | Blaze Pascal, the French mathematician, said something I've never forgotten. |
| 0:55.0 | He said most of man's miseries derived by his inability to sit quietly in a room by himself. |
| 1:05.1 | Tranquility is the new luxury. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm going to repeat that again because it's so important. |
| 1:10.6 | Tranquility is the new luxury. |
| 1:14.6 | Most people in the world right now are so addicted to distraction. |
| 1:18.1 | There's so much going on. |
| 1:20.4 | They're exhausted. |
| 1:22.0 | And so one of the single best moves you can do to get your best |
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