Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and why is that? Because ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters.’
Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.
This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Lessons from History from the book titled ‘Uncharted’ – How to Map the Future Together by Margaret Heffernan.
In her bold and invigorating new book, Margaret Heffernan explores the individuals, organizations and mindsets that aren’t daunted by uncertainty but seize the challenge of making the future for them-selves and explores answers to these questions, how can we think about the future? What do we need to do – and who do we need to be?
Lessons from History
When we expect history to guide us, we overweight continuity and narrative, while underweighting change and contingency. Aesthetic similarities often turn out to be no more than skin deep, their appearances masking important variation that could spark better questions and more illuminating debate. History could provide a rich array of components with which to construct images of the future, but we lose that richness when we reach for analogies.
But just because parallels are misleading doesn’t render history useless. It means we have to use it differently.
It can’t offer recipes but it can provide raw material with which to construct fresh combinations, drawn from where we have been, where we are today and where we wish to be tomorrow. That it offers neither inevitability nor guarantees isn’t its weakness but its greatest power.
Excerpt from ‘Uncharted’ by Margaret Heffernan
I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:
http://www.mheffernan.com/book-uncharted.php
Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Namaste!
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