9/8/2023

Xinyi Zhang

21:06:12

Practice Embracing

In the second article, the author proposed the importance of paying attention to history and human behavior when thinking about the future.The author expounds "to study history is to study humanity". Which quite resonate me in some ways. Learning from past actions or cases, it is inevitable to make some mistakes. However, those experience we learned could be a better guide for individual and create a better future when reflecting on the present. I find it instructive to learn from the past.

Source: Butler, Octavia E., and Manzel Bowman. A few rules for predicting the future: An essay. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015.