People do not observe enough. Observation reveals details that enlighten any situation. Observation combined with the knowledge on has can often yield an answer to previously unresolvable situations. Allow me to set forth a small example.
Suppose there is a class meeting in Business Hall, but I do not know which room the class is meeting in. Walking up the road I see agroup of students walking to class. Two of the group are twins. I know that there is a pair of twins in the class that is meeting. Therefore, I could follow this group of students and most likely find the class I am looking for.
While this example seems trivial at first, it illustrates how the joining of one small observation with a fact or two can illuminate the world. Through this simple process, however, the most trivial observations and facts can combine to yield amazing truths. These observations and subsequent revelations can help in any respect.
The observation of emerging patterns and similarities in math develops procedures and theories. In a conflict, observations and knowledge of your enemy allow you to preempt his movements. In a conversation, the unspoken truths often are revealed to be present in a nervous fidget or lack of eye contact.
Therefore, open your senses and become more than you are now.