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Constant connection with social media and smartphones makes it almost impossible to be alone. And that's not a good thing says essayist, author and former Yale Professor Bill Deresiewicz.
We've lost the ability to sit with our thoughts and get easily distracted.
To be an individual takes constant effort. Deresiewicz explains why we need to be more than excellent sheep who just follow the crowd in a collection of essays called The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.
