Showing posts with label recognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recognition. Show all posts

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Heeding Lessons From History

Many might claim that most if not all of my analogies are totally off the mark. I am much obliged to take this criticism. Being this as it may, I think what needs to be pointed out is that by denying the veracity of my analogies, we make ourselves vulnerable to not heeding lessons from history.

I think history can potentially be a wonderful guide for learning from past “mistakes” but it can only be so if we humbly recognize when we are repeating these “mistakes”. Do you see where I am going with this?

If one writes off all my analogies in a desperate attempt to defend his “rightness”, it is unikely any lessons will ever be learned, be them from me or anybody else.

We seem to have a tendency to deny that today is any different from yesterday making the study of history essentially worthless from a practical standpoint.