Drive with the radio off once. Your own thoughts might be better company than you expect.

Background sound fills every gap so reliably that you rarely find out what would surface without it. A drive is one of the few stretches where your hands are busy and your mind is free, which is exactly when useful thinking tends to happen. Silence in a car is less lonely than it sounds from outside it.

Take one familiar trip this week with nothing playing. Let the first few minutes be dull without fixing them. What comes up is often the thing you have been too occupied to consider.