Quote Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
An apt Latvian saying - to have one eye on the past is to be blind in one eye, to ignore the past is to be blind in both eyes.
True H ☺
My pharmacist said similar when i walked away from taking advised prescription drugs which back then suppressed my brain to a frazzle.

In readings of History & mitigating for explanation then methodology includes vast ways to collect the info to decipher & further analyse it's data, so you have to dig deep & then dig deeper still often with your boots on the ground before trying to explain your rationale behind the methodology you wish to project to those who want to listen.

Or as they'll say next door to Latvia -
"Arkli pazinsi is dantu, mogu - iskalbuz" !

(You will know a horse by its teeth & a man by his talk).