Wednesday, March 21, 2012


The Greatest Lesson of History

When I recently came across the saying that the greatest lesson of history is that we do not learn the greatest lessons of history, I knee-jerked. Of course, humans are just not smart enough to take advantage of the obvious benefits of knowing history, and the fact that it repeats itself. If only everyone else got that.

Then, a few days later, it struck me. What if you changed the sentence to the following: The greatest lesson of my life (or my personal history) is that …

You fill in the rest.

And once you have the answer, ask yourself what you have learned from it, and how it has affected your life.

By the way, the greatest lesson of my life occurred on January 31, 2000. That day, I started to understand time. 

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