A question worth sitting with

Yogi Berra — 10× World Series champion · 18× All-Star · Greatest catcher in baseball history

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

— Yogi Berra

The joke lands first — because of course if you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. That is what "somewhere else" means. But the truth inside it is not circular at all. Berra is pointing at a genuine and common failure: the assumption that forward motion and good intentions will eventually produce a specific result even without a specific destination in mind. They won't. Drift does not resolve into precision. Without a clear picture of where you are going, the forces of distraction, circumstance, and other people's agendas will supply the destination for you. Lawrence Peter Berra left school at fourteen, served in the Navy at Normandy on D-Day, signed with the Yankees, and became the greatest catcher in baseball history — 10 World Series championships, 18 All-Star selections, the only man ever to catch a perfect game in the postseason. He knew where he was going. He arrived.

Do you know where you are going right now — specifically enough that you'd recognize it when you got there?

Read the question once. If the answer is vague, that is useful information. Sit with it.

Someplace else is always available. The question is whether it's where you meant to go.