Meditation as self-therapy

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Naval’s practical account of what meditation actually is, and why solitude is a skill worth reclaiming — the personal counter-move to the modern struggle.

Learning to be alone is a superpower

Pascal: all of man’s problems arise because he cannot sit by himself in a room for 30 minutes alone.
The iPhone killed boredom — always stimulated, always in line on the phone. Naval once prized a mind that never stopped running; he now calls that “a disease… the road to misery.”
The goal is to rest and settle into your mind. He now looks forward to solitary confinement — a day alone can be the happiest in a while. The superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it is available to everyone.

Meditation is the art of doing nothing

Not a signaling contest (“how much did you meditate?”), and not something most people who say they do it actually do. It’s simply doing nothing — and that’s why it’s hard and why it works.

Solitude on Today Purpose

Meditation as self-therapy

Learning to be alone is a superpower

Meditation is the art of doing nothing