Think About It

If there is someone known for their insight, it might be Yogi Berra. Notice I didn’t say wisdom because, sometimes, Yogi missed the point. Observations such as “Slump? I ain’t in no slump … I just ain’t hitting.” or “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.” aren’t necessarily insightful. However, there were some Yogisms that showed wisdom and on the anniversary of his death in 2015, I thought I’d share one. On one occasion the famous Yankee catcher stated, “You can observe a lot by just watching.” Interesting, this may seem rather simple, but how many of us overlook this principle? It is tempting to think we have things figured out so we stop looking for new observations. Additionally, there are things that we don’t want to see, so we close our eyes to them. There is a lot to life that many of us have not seen, unfortunately, many of us have stopped looking for anything new. We are either content with what we have seen or we are so st