Take the window seat and don’t open anything. Three hundred miles of fields will sort out a lot of your thoughts.

Long empty stretches do something that concentrated thinking cannot. With nothing arriving, the mind starts sorting on its own, and problems you could not solve by attacking them tend to resolve themselves quietly while you are looking at fields. It feels like doing nothing, which is why it is the first thing sacrificed.

Take one journey this month without filling it. No screen, no podcast, no book, just the window and however long it lasts. Bring something to write with for the part near the end, because that is usually when the sorting finishes and hands you something.