All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal said that. Unfortunately, the French philosopher didn't give us any inkling as to how one overcomes this inability; this infinite restlessness. To develop the ability to sit quietly in a room alone––at least from my experience––you must practice sitting quietly in a room alone. In your first sitting, you will get restless after just one or two minutes. In your second sitting, you might make it to five minutes before giving into the urge to reach for your phone. However, with each new sitting, you will begin to enjoy your own company for ten minutes at a time, twenty minutes at a time and thirty minutes at a time.