Genius loves aloneness. Genius loves aloneness. I think Blaise Pascal said it more elegantly than I ever could. He said, “Most of man’s miseries derive from his inability to sit quietly in a room with himself.” You can be in the world. You can change the game. You don’t get to do both. If you look at Ernest Hemingway, if you look at Steven King, and study Maya Angelou, if you look at Hedy Lamarr, if you look at Madame Curie, if you look at Vincent Van Gogh, these people all had one thing in common. If you look at Aristotle Onassis, if you look at Bill Gates, if you look at Nelson Mandela, these people all understood the transformational value of solitude and being alone and writing in a journal and being reflective to form their philosophy
and to capture their visions.
And so, genius loves aloneness. Please, and don’t leave this to chance, schedule on a regular
basis, every week, periods where you go off into your dream room, or maybe it’s a public library, or maybe you go to the seaside, and you bring your journal and you’re alone and you think and you create and you dream and you ideate and you write down what you want to stand for, and you write down what you’re going to achieve in the next quarter, in the next year, in the next five years.
