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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to find one thing that you've never

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Speaker 1: noticed before. Doing this can shake up even the most

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Speaker 1: routine of routines. Today's tip, like another this week, comes

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Speaker 1: from Jeffrey Davis's book Tracking Wonder, which will be out

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Speaker 1: this fall and is all about reconnecting with your creative self.

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Speaker 1: While routines can help make good choices, automatic mindless routines

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Speaker 1: can be the enemy of creativity. We aren't seeing or

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Speaker 1: thinking or noticing. M Take your weekday commute. If you

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Speaker 1: drive the same route to work five mornings a week

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Speaker 1: and drive home the same way in reverse, it is

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Speaker 1: soon possible to drive the whole commute without even thinking.

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Speaker 1: You look up and you're at your office. People will

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Speaker 1: speak of meaning to get off at a different train

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Speaker 1: stop for a breakfast meeting, but being on autopilot and

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Speaker 1: winding up in their office lobbies before they even remember

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Speaker 1: that something was supposed to be different. So here is

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Speaker 1: a way to jolt yourself out of the stupor aim

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Speaker 1: to notice just one thing on your commute that you

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Speaker 1: have never noticed before. The world is a varied place,

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Speaker 1: and there are many details in it, and so you

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Speaker 1: can imagine all the new things you might see if

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Speaker 1: you tried. Maybe it's that a word on a sign

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Speaker 1: is misspelled. Maybe it's that a house near that intersection

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Speaker 1: where you wait every morning has a bright red door.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a sign pointing out a store on the

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Speaker 1: second floor of a building near your train stop. In

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Speaker 1: any case, you won't know what it will be until

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Speaker 1: you look. The process of looking will nudge you into

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Speaker 1: a more mindful state. Today's commute will be different, and

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Speaker 1: that by itself will make the day a bit more memorable. Now.

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Speaker 1: I am not saying you need to do this every

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Speaker 1: single day. Maybe once a week is fine, but in

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Speaker 1: general it is good to re examine the things you

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Speaker 1: do over and over again, or see over and over

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Speaker 1: again without thinking. The home renovation project my family is

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Speaker 1: doing is long and occasionally tedious, but it does have

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Speaker 1: me seeing everyday objects in new ways. I hadn't really

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Speaker 1: noticed the shape of the design on all the doors

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Speaker 1: in my house until I was buying new doors for

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Speaker 1: another house. I would have thought the hardware in my

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Speaker 1: house was a different color than it turns out to

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Speaker 1: be I had just never truly looked before. I now

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Speaker 1: see snow guards on roofs. I had no idea what

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Speaker 1: those even were before this whole process. So today, if

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Speaker 1: you are commuting somewhere, aim to notice one thing you

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Speaker 1: have never seen before. If you drive your kids to

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Speaker 1: school or camp or activities, aim to see one new

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Speaker 1: thing on the trip. Circle your block or your neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: even your house. See one new site that you didn't expect.

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Speaker 1: Your eyes will feel a little more open, and that

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Speaker 1: is almost always a good thing. In the meantime, this

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Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,

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