Go for one walk without your phone. Notice how loud your own thoughts get when nothing’s competing.

Your own thinking is quiet, and it loses to anything with sound and motion. Fill every gap with a screen and the ideas that need an empty ten minutes never surface, which is how you can go a fortnight without hearing what you actually think about your own life.

Leave the phone at home for one walk this week. The first ten minutes feel twitchy and a bit boring, and that part passes. What follows is a surprising amount of clarity about things you never sat down to solve, so bring something to write on when you get back.