The anchorite’s role and influence in the community was a byproduct of his spiritual life rather than something envisaged as its purpose. The initial obligations went rather in the other direction: Wulfric sought an encounter with God and counted on the community to provide the necessary conditions.
John of Ford. The Life of Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorite (Cistercian Fathers Series Book 79)
To be solitary (in Jesus) is to not be productive (in a worldly sense).
this solitary life 