{"id":4012,"date":"2022-01-13T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2022-01-25T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:30:38","slug":"surviving-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The people who best survive social isolation are those with a strong inner world.\u00a0 They are people who \u2018require\u2019 less stimulation from others and can exist for long periods, immersed in their own imaginations and mental abstractions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often people think that they have just been born more \u2018extroverted\u2019 or \u2018introverted\u2019, and there is nothing that they can do to change this \u2018fact\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But this is simply not true.\u00a0 While many of these outcomes do go back to the differences in early socialisation practices, where some people are more encouraged to develop richer imaginations, it is by no means biologically determined or set in concrete.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the best ways to develop more inner world is to take up reading.\u00a0 Any books are fine, but novels are particularly good.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is because novels increase \u2018insight\u2019 by enhancing social and emotional intelligence, by providing depth, options and explanations around human motivations and strategies.\u00a0 Novels also build imagination skills and encourage self-reflection. \u00a0They give the reader a rare glimpse into the mental landscape of other people. <\/strong><\/p>\n

These are all fantastic skills for both building a self-reliant, inner world during times of isolation, as well as enhancing social interaction skills and insights in times of plenty. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The people who best survive social isolation are those with a strong inner world.\u00a0 They are people who \u2018require\u2019 less stimulation from others and can exist for long periods, immersed in their own imaginations and mental abstractions. Often people think that they have just been born more \u2018extroverted\u2019 or \u2018introverted\u2019, and there is nothing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\"\"\n\nThe people who best survive social isolation are those with a strong inner world.\u00a0 They are people who \u2018require\u2019 less stimulation from others and can exist for long periods, immersed in their own imaginations and mental abstractions.<\/strong>\n\nOften people think that they have just been born more \u2018extroverted\u2019 or \u2018introverted\u2019, and there is nothing that they can do to change this \u2018fact\u2019.<\/strong>\n\nBut this is simply not true.\u00a0 While many of these outcomes do go back to the differences in early socialisation practices, where some people are more encouraged to develop richer imaginations, it is by no means biologically determined or set in concrete.\u00a0 <\/strong>\n\nOne of the best ways to develop more inner world is to take up reading.\u00a0 Any books are fine, but novels are particularly good.\u00a0 <\/strong>\n\nThis is because novels increase \u2018insight\u2019 by enhancing social and emotional intelligence, by providing depth, options and explanations around human motivations and strategies.\u00a0 Novels also build imagination skills and encourage self-reflection. \u00a0They give the reader a rare glimpse into the mental landscape of other people. <\/strong>\n\nThese are all fantastic skills for both building a self-reliant, inner world during times of isolation, as well as enhancing social interaction skills and insights in times of plenty. \u00a0<\/strong>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salleemclaren.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}