Lessons From Walnut Picking

“If you continue to do only what you are currently doing, then you will continue to see only from your current perspectives.”

The English walnut tree has a bumper crop of nuts this year. Yay! I was out and about the other day picking nuts from the lower limbs.

English walnuts on the tree are hidden away inside a green husk.  They look nice and big and round. The husks are sufficiently different from leaves that one would think it would be easy to distinguish a husk from a leave.

Something I quickly discovered was that in order to find all the nuts on the limb it was necessary to approach the limb from many different angles. Coming at the limb from different angles would reveal tons of nuts that were not visible from other views.

This simple walnut hide and seek served as a resounding reminder that no matter how apparently straightforward something is looking at it from different perspectives is sure to reveal previously missed aspects.