Sometimes wisdom is simply noticing what everybody else hurried past.

A great deal of what counts as wisdom is really just having slowed down enough to notice something that was available to everyone. The insight was not hidden. Everyone else was moving too quickly to register it, and the ability to stop is rarer than the ability to think.

Build in one unhurried stretch this week where you are not producing anything. Let your attention settle. What surfaces there is not usually complicated, and it is frequently useful.