Some of the best plans were made on a walk with no earbuds in.

Ideas need room, and constant input leaves none. A walk with nothing playing gives your mind the unstructured time it uses to connect things you already knew but had never put next to each other. That is where a surprising number of decisions actually get made.

Take one walk this week with nothing in your ears and no destination. Let the first ten minutes be boring, because they usually are. Bring something to write with, since whatever shows up tends to arrive once and leave again.