Loneliness is useful only if a person is comfortable alone with a group of psychologists from the University of Buffalo in the United States found that solitude in certain cases can positively affect a person. This is reported by the Washington Post.

Loneliness is useful in that case, if a person is simply interested in being alone with himself, and not because he does not like social contacts, he is too modest or suffers from depression.

To study, they recruited 295 university students, determined the type of personality of each, learned about their social life and creative abilities.

As a result, psychologists came to the conclusion that students who consciously sought solitude are more inclined to creativity, they are able to use the time spent alone in a constructive way.

Biographies of many creative people can only confirm this conclusion of scientists.

The study also showed that very smart people are more happy when they have fewer friends: they are not ready to spend a lot of time on communication.