History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Mark Twain
I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment I began to hear topics about economic crisis and pandemic.
Apparently, I did not. The hosts and guests were actually talking about the great economic recession of 2008 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. I was still listening to the 2008 and 2009 episodes.
I can’t help but feel like I am time-traveling. Because I am in the future listening to the HBR IdeaCast hosts and guests from the past. And yet, we seem to experience similar things at different intensities. Our times seem to converge.
Indeed, there is nothing new under the sun.
That which has been is that which will be [again], And that which has been done is that which will be done again. So there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 AMP
One thing I learned about how the people of 2008 and 2009 went through and thrived in those years is this:
It’s unwise not to learn from the past.
And to those who lost a lot to Covid-19, like everyone did in 2008 and 2009, this is only for a time.
jessa 