Your Definition of Solitude Is Best Known Through the Way It Feels

Sally Kohn: My first thought is everybody else's thought. It's the conventional wisdom. I think what you're pointing to is something that I didn't manage to articulate in the essay, but it's that the thing that we're talking about now as solitude is best known through the way it feels. When somebody's in a garden for an hour and a half, working on something or when they're trying that's a kind of solitude that tends to reveal or even form character.