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Table for One
medium courage 60 min +40 XP
Eat in a restaurant alone, at a table in the room, with no phone and no book.
Why this matters
A phone in a cafe is not entertainment, it is a certificate proving you are not alone and not abandoned. An hour without that certificate shows how much you fear being looked at.
What to do
Walk into an ordinary cafe or restaurant at a time when there are people in it and ask for a table in the room, not at the counter and not in the corner. Put your phone in your pocket or bag and do not take it out at all. No book, no headphones, no laptop. Order a real meal, not a ten-minute coffee, and stay at least forty minutes. Look around, eat slowly, count how many times your hand reaches for your pocket.
Afterwards
For the first ten minutes it feels as if the whole room is watching; by minute twenty you can see that nobody is, and that discovery lasts a long time afterwards. It may get boring — boredom here is not failure, it is the thing a screen usually drowns out. If you did pull out the phone, put it back and add ten minutes instead of criticising yourself.
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