Eating alone, you know your own taste. Eating at a table full of people, you will neither fully know your own taste nor theirs because everyone adjusts their preferences to match the table’s dishes, losing focus on their individual taste.

The key idea we must focus on is that without knowing one’s own mind, one cannot truly decide what they prefer. To achieve this clarity, the mind needs space from the chaos of daily life. Analytical thinking reaches its optimal level in solitude.

However, solitude does not imply an anti-social attitude. Moreover, a single moment of solitude will not instantly transform you into a star of wisdom. Regular practice of solitude is essential for training the mind to analyze and decide at an optimal level.

Cartesian dualism, most famously defended by René Descartes, argues that there are two kinds of substances: mental and physical. Descartes states that the mind can exist outside of the body, and the body cannot think.

A person who develops this habit—becoming fully aware of reality while also having the ability to detach from it when necessary—gains the power to enter the realm of reality at will. To achieve this, one must have the determination not to lose track of their mind in the storm of meaningless noise.

Our mind is the strongest element in the reality of existence. It can survive and bloom with or without the physical form, the mind doesn’t need the body in the same way that the body needs the mind to collaborate with varied reality.