The standard advice for improving at photography is to shoot more. Take more pictures, review them, figure out what worked. That's not wrong but it's incomplete. Shooting more gives you more data points. It doesn't necessarily teach you to see better before you press the shutter. The habit that changed how I work was simpler and less obvious: I started going to places without my camera.
Not often — maybe once a month. I'd walk a trail or drive a route I photographed regularly and just look. No pressure to capture anything, no weight on my shoulder, no decisions to make. What I noticed was that I started seeing light differently. I'd clock an angle in late afternoon and come back the next week with the camera. I'd notice how a particular section of trail looked in fog and plan around it. The images didn't improve because I shot more. They improved because I started arriving at locations with a clearer idea of what I was looking for.
— Michael