You can’t crank the volume on a moment you’re barely listening to.

Intensity does not come from the event. You can be somewhere objectively remarkable and feel very little, because what happens only registers to the degree that you are attending to it. People usually respond to a flat experience by going looking for a bigger one, and the bigger one comes out flat as well.

Before you go looking for more, check how much of you was in the last one. Try taking something small and giving it your whole attention for two minutes. Most of what feels dull turns out to be underattended rather than actually dull.