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The author addresses this in the first sentence: > When I went to college I discovered that I harbored a serious aversion to eating alone in public. So the an

• TheCapn 4y ago
  Feels very much like one of those "how do you reason a person out of a belief that they hold without reason?" type things. There's generally no objective reason for someone to have the aversion besides their own self-created mental barriers. In which case the solution quite practically is "get over yourself and try it". If the person's social anxiety is high enough that such advise is poor and inactionable they probably should be working with therapy and not writing general advise blogs. Back to the primary subject though, it seems our author even recognizes this: >But with practice, I’m starting to become more comfortable with dining alone and even enjoy it. It has its own charms, and I think everyone should do it once in a while. So it does seem quite literally that simple. Even to our author.