If you want to change your life to be happier and healthier, have you tried locking yourself in solitary confinement for 365 days?
A 49-year-old man on TikTok named Skip Boyce has launched a project called “The Isolation Year,” where he’s staying inside one room in his house, without leaving (unless it’s an emergency), for an entire year.
He started on January 10th, so he’s three weeks into the 365-day challenge.
He says, “The rules are simple: I do not leave the room, and [my] livestream remains active 24/7. I don’t bring in outside entertainment or unplanned interaction. I live, sleep, work out, read, write, and spend my time [here].”
He adds, “This isn’t about shock value. I wanted to create a controlled environment to step away from constant stimulation, re-establish discipline, and rebuild habits around health, focus, and accountability.”
Skip lives in Utah, and used to own a construction business. He lives with a family, although his kids are adults. His “isolation room” is partially separated from the rest of the house, and he used his skills as a builder to set it up.
He has a bathroom and shower, a makeshift gym, and an elaborate live-streaming set-up.
He’s not allowed to have unhealthy foods and drinks (especially soda), no alcohol or drugs, and he’s working with a virtual trainer to get in shape. And he’s apparently tasked his wife with providing him food.
Naturally, a lot of people have been warning him that isolation to this degree is NOT healthy, but Skip says that he’s spent a couple months preparing for this, and that cutting himself off from the outside world is the best thing for him.
(You can find Skip on TikTok and YouTube if you want to follow along. Here’s an early video from November, where he explains his intent.)
(A lot of people are giving him a 0% chance of pulling this off, but one person joked, “My teenager is currently living your experiment. Find an original one, Skip.”)
@the.isolation.year Day -70. Preparing for The Isolation Year. Lock-in: Jan 10. One perfect pull-up.
