Usually, the better someone does their job, the easier it looks. You rarely realize how hard it is until you try it yourself. - James Clear

How to see opportunities others miss:

1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains.
2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite.
3) Talk to hyper-creative people. Their thinking will rub off.

Don't write to sound smart. Write to be useful.

If you're useful over a long time period, you will end up looking smart anyway.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.