Having several in rotation that I swap out seems to help, I think. That, and always choosing starter words with either three consonants/two vowels or three vowels/two consonants. Yesterday my starter was "arose," which I added to my rotation a while back after "arise" was used as an answer.
And having said that, I realize now that Wordle has reused an answer on at least one occasion, I could go back to some of my old starter words, too. I think I might have had my best results starting with "raise," "pouty," or "lousy." Recently I've also used "mousy," which hasn't been used AFAIK.
