James Murphy, the founder of LCD Soundsystem, has been credited with a nice aphorism: “The best way to complain is to make things.”

Looking for an answer instead of the answer can shift and broaden your vision.

Barry Schwartz, a Swarthmore psychology professor and the author of The Paradox of Choice—argue

Looking for an answer instead of the answer can shift and broaden your vision.

Set that prejudice aside and take the official tour of wherever it is you live.

You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

Trickster Makes This World, an excellent book about such acts of disruptive imagination, scholar and writer Lewis Hyde

The Field Guide to Typography: Typefaces in the Urban Landscape

Fill your notebook.