This Dangerous Habit Keeps You Unhappy, According to Blaise Pascal

Built around the famous Pascal pensée — "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Oppong unpacks the 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher's argument that the engine of our unhappiness is not what's missing from our lives but our inability to tolerate our own company, the silence in which uncomfortable thoughts surface. Four hundred years on, Oppong argues, the diagnosis has only become more accurate as the rooms have filled up with phones.