<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Sit in a quiet room without a drink, a screen, or... > Sit in a quiet room without a drink, a screen, or a soundtrack, and find out whether you can stand your own company. Any substance or stream of entertainment used by default to make an evening bearable can also prevent the evening from teaching you anything about the life that made it unbearable. Recreation was meant to be re-creation, the restoration of a person, not a nightly anesthesia that leaves the conditions of exhaustion unexamined. **Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Sit in a quiet room without a drink, a screen, or a soundtrack, and find out whether you can stand your own company. Any substance or stream of entertainment used by default to make an evening bearable can also prevent the evening from teaching you anything about the life that made it unbearable. Recreation was meant to be re-creation, the restoration of a person, not a nightly anesthesia that leaves the conditions of exhaustion unexamined.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-sit-quiet-room-conditions-exhaustion-unexamined ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->