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#381 - General Stanley McChrystal - Military Strategies For Dealing With Risk

Modern Wisdom

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Can You Judge the Actions of Yesterday by the Standards of to Day?

We need to be incredibly careful about judging the ons of people, especially from the past. There's a lot of retrospective shaming that we're doing at the moment on social media. Can you judge the actions of yesterday by the standards of to day? You can't call people evil, like throwing terms around, like evil people. One of the beauties though is the people in the past ore dead. So we can rip their names off buildings, knock down their statues and criticise them all day long,. because they're not here to defend themselves. What about adaptability? If we don't adapt, we lose. And yet, and we all think we're adaptable. But

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