Enforced isolation can be transformative
Enforced isolation can be revolutionary:
- Isaac Newton in an 18-month forced evacuation from London because of the Great Plague derived/invented calculus, the principles of optics, and created the foundation for modern physics with his work pertaining to gravity
- Malcom Little went into prison and through study and self-reflection came out Malcolm X
- Henry David Thoreau went to the woods at Walden Pond for two years and forever changed how a nation thought of simplicity, self-reliance and the environment
- Every writer at a writer’s retreat
- Every artist in a studio
- Every monk in a monastery
- You, in silent contemplation, daily