What Are Your Favorite Solo Activities?

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

More Americans – especially Gen-Z and millennials – say they value dining alone at restaurants, according to new data from Open Table. And research shows that doing solo activities is good for us – it recharges us and improves our creativity. With concern about loneliness and isolation on the rise, we talk about healthy alone-ness. What are some of your favorite activities to do alone? Guests: Rebecca Ratner, dean's professor of marketing, University of Maryland Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Thuy-Vy Nguyen, associate professor in psychology, Durham University; founder of the Solitude Lab; co-author of “Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:33.4	Coming up on Forum, more Americans are choosing to enjoy a restaurant meal alone,
1:38.6	according to new data from Open Table, though some still find it a bit awkward.
1:42.8	Welcome, how many in your party?
1:45.0	Two?
1:46.0	No, just the one.
1:48.0	All right, party of one, follow me.
1:51.0	But solo activities are good for us.
1:53.0	They can recharge us, fuel our creativity, boost our confidence.
1:57.0	This hour, we look at the benefits of taking yourself out to dinner or a movie
2:01.2	and how to get past any discomfort around doing them solo. What's your favorite activity to do
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