Tasting Notes

I’ve always found the tasting notes on coffee bean bags intriguing.

The notes on the bag I had this morning: crème brǔlée, vanilla, keylime.

As I took my first few sips, I thought: “yeah, I can taste some of these things.”

It’s hard to say whether I would have arrived at the same conclusion if I hadn’t read the label beforehand.

But after reading it, the suggestion couldn’t be removed.

A friendly, caffeinated reminder that what we end up noticing is often informed but what we’ve been told to or independently decide to look for in the first place.

If you look for solutions, you’re much more likely to find solutions. If you look for problems, you’re much more likely to find problems.

If you look for reasons to be optimistic, you’ll be much more optimistic…

You’re always going to look where the flashlight has been pointed to; don’t forget that you can point the flashlight elsewhere.