We Don’t See The Full Picture | We Reap What We Sow
The Daily Stoic27 Okt 2022

We Don’t See The Full Picture | We Reap What We Sow

History is a lie. It is written by the victors, as the saying goes. Which means the picture it produces is inherently biased by a particular point of view. It’s also biased towards the things we know about, by our common knowledge.

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