Drive with the radio off once. You’ll hear what you’ve been drowning out.

Constant audio does a job, and the job is usually keeping your own head at a distance. That is not weakness, just effective, right up until the thing you are not hearing starts making decisions for you. With the sound off, what surfaces first is often a worry you have been outrunning, and underneath that is sometimes a plain answer you already had.

Take one drive this week with nothing playing, or one walk if you are not driving yet. Fifteen minutes is plenty. You do not have to act on whatever turns up, because hearing it is already most of the work.