Take one walk a week without headphones. Your town has a soundtrack too.

Headphones make everywhere feel like the same place. With something in your ears the world outside turns into background, and you stop registering that the street you use every day has its own noise: traffic changing gear, a screen door, somebody practicing an instrument badly through a window. None of it is dramatic. It is just the sound of where you actually live.

Give one walk a week to whatever is out there instead of whatever is queued up. Use the same route so the difference is obvious. You will find things about your own neighborhood you have walked past for years.