Your best ideas keep arriving in the shower because it’s the one room where your phone can’t follow. Build a few of those rooms into your day.

There is nothing magic about that room except the absence of input. Nobody can reach you, there is nothing to read, and your attention finally has enough slack to join two things it has been carrying separately for weeks. Any place with those conditions does the same job just as well.

Build two or three of them into your week deliberately. The walk to the bus without headphones, ten minutes before sleep with the phone in another room, the first quiet drink of the morning. Protect them the way you would protect any tool that works.