I mentioned the other day that 'one (of) the targets of my research this year is "loneliness"'.

When I mentioned this to my wife, she said, 'What?' She asked me back.

My wife also had the same impression of the place as I wrote in my diary above.

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Yesterday I finished reading "THE LONELY CENTURY Why We Are "Lonely"" by Noreena Hertz and am now putting it together.

The work that is currently expected of me (I think) is "how to measure loneliness", but this is quite difficult.

Technically, various measures can be taken. Although this is possible even with current technology, it is naturally intertwined with the issue of privacy.

'I don't want my private life interfered with, but I also don't want to be alone.'

I cannot find an approach that conveniently resolves these disparate and conflicting desires.

Usually, the answer is 'you have to give up one or the other.

There is a solution in the last chapter of "THE LONELY CENTURY," but there seems to be no definitive solution -- well, if there was such a solution, it would have been implemented already.

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I am a person who can think that 'solitude is worth it,' so I have no hesitation in testing the following.

Compared to TOEIC, I don't have any resistance at all (I would rather take it).

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Incidentally, there is a paradigm-shifting way to (comfortably) solve this "loneliness" problem.

Replace "loneliness" with "isolation" -- that's it.