Walk a different way to school once in a while. Getting out of autopilot helps you notice your life again.

Repetition stops your brain bothering to record. On the hundredth identical walk there is nothing new to process, so the whole stretch compresses into almost no memory at all. Change one thing about the route and attention switches back on, because now there is something to look at. The street was always there; your recording was off.

Take a different way once this week, even a slightly worse one. Go the long side, cut through the park, get off a stop early. It costs you six minutes and gives you back a morning you would not otherwise remember.