Take a walk without headphones. It’s one of the easiest ways to hear what you actually think.

Constant input leaves no room for your own thinking to surface. Music and podcasts are good company, and they occupy exactly the channel your thoughts would use, which is how you can go a week without finding out what you actually think about something. Silence is not empty. It is where the backlog finally gets processed.

Walk somewhere this week with nothing playing. Twenty minutes is enough. Expect the first five to be boring, and expect something you have been avoiding to surface in the last ten.