Author(s)

Siyuan Yang

Corresponding Author

Siyuan Yang

Abstract

It is how we, the public and policymakers, respond to plans and mistakes that really shapes our history. As Yuval Noah Harari has argued in his writings, we study history not to learn about the future, but to broaden our horizons, to understand that our present state of affairs is neither natural nor inevitable, and that therefore there are more possibilities ahead of us than we realize. Even if history repeating itself is inevitable, the choice of whether or not to make the "same" mistakes in decision-making remains open.

Keywords

history; mistakes; powerful