Outside world is always needed.

"I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is  or where I am. None of that matters." (Krakauer 7)

Inspiration or fool?

To be quite honest this was a very foolish choice. I personally think that I would have been better for Alex to have had something to do with the outside world, something as little as time very well could have helped him to survive a little bit longer. with time, he would be able to have some kind of schedule so that he wouldn't have felt so rushed to have had something to eat and possibly have not made the mistake of eating poisonous berries.