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Enforced isolation can be transformative

By Evan Griffith

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

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