Feb 05 2009
Lessons From History
What happened today most likely also happened yesterday, or last year, or last month. What happened today will very likely happen again tomorrow, or next year, or in twenty years.
By paying attention to the lessons learned from just a year or two ago a person can often avoid or minimize the impact of some problems of tomorrow. One great example of this are the fluctuations of the stock markets. Stocks have dropped in the past. Stocks have dropped to “historic lows” in the past. That is why the lows are historic. This means that we have some indication of the forces that affect the markets.
This same kind of study can be applied to nearly every aspect of life. If you have questions about what is going to happen tomorrow, then a good place to start is to look at what happened yesterday. If the conditions that made people act in a certain way occur again, it is a good bet that they will act that way again.
