The bus ride nobody would film can be the only twenty quiet minutes you get all day. Use them.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Dead time is usually the only unscheduled time a day contains. Nothing is expected of you in it, nobody can reach you in a way that demands anything, and that combination is rarer than it sounds once a week gets busy. Filling it automatically is how the last unclaimed part of a day disappears.

Leave one regular stretch of transit unfilled this week and see what your mind does with it. Look out the window, think about a problem properly, or think about nothing. Twenty minutes with no input is not empty; it is where most of your own ideas live.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where do you get your only quiet stretch each day?

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