One of the strategies I used to become more neurotypical was to pick out a random person on the street and follow them around for the entire day. I would carefully log all of their movements and observations I made.
I still try to do this from time to time, but I get recognized alot which makes it hard.
A lot of academics aren’t ready to hear this because it will hurt their precious little egos but:
Your students are apathetic about learning because you don’t integrate waterslides and waterparks. They don’t care about learning because they aren’t cascading down wet wet chutes
Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:
Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.