--- --- # How To Get Better at Spending Time Alone by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to get better at spending time alone.**](https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/how-to-be-better-at-spending-time-alone.html) By Maggie Puniewska in the _Cut_ **2\.** [**Urbanization is pushing wildlife to the brink. Can we share our world with threatened species?**](http://e360.yale.edu/features/habitat-on-the-edges-making-room-for-wildlife-in-an-urbanized-world) By Richard Conniff at _Yale E360_ **3\.** [**A future expedition to Mars can take lessons from the history of this unlikely industry.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-whalers-of-moby-dick-could-help-put-humans-on-mars) By Matthew Bruen in _Aeon_ **4\.** [**Just the smell of a loved one can reduce your stress.**](https://news.ubc.ca/2018/01/04/stressed-out-try-smelling-your-partners-shirt/) By the _University of British Columbia_ **5\.** [**This one-step catalyst can purify nitrates from water.**](http://news.rice.edu/2018/01/04/rice-u-s-one-step-catalyst-turns-nitrates-into-water-and-air-2/) By Jade Boyd at _Rice University_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: How To Get Better at Spending Time Alone ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5089598/how-to-get-better-at-spending-time-alone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5089598/how-to-get-better-at-spending-time-alone/"},"headline":"How To Get Better at Spending Time Alone","datePublished":"2018-01-05T17:00:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:14.821Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5089598/how-to-get-better-at-spending-time-alone/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Wildlife","Stress","Mars","Water","Happiness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5089598/how-to-get-better-at-spending-time-alone/","name":"How To Get Better at Spending Time Alone"}}]}] ```