What Are Your Favorite Solo Activities?
We talk about healthy alone-ness and why doing solo activities is good for us.
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Show Notes
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”
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