You can’t hear your own opinion if every minute is filled with someone else’s.

Opinions need a little empty space to form in. When the whole day is packed with videos, podcasts, group chats and other people’s takes, what you end up with is the loudest version you heard most recently, and it feels like yours. Thinking is slower than listening, and it needs a gap to happen in. That is why you can care about something and still not know what you actually make of it.

Give yourself twenty minutes with nothing playing before you decide something that matters. Walk, wash dishes, sit on the bus with your earbuds out. See what you think when nobody is talking.