Why do we often feel like we're living through something that's happened before? How can we deal with our fear of repeating the past? The answer can be found in understanding history's rhymes.
The reasons we recognize these rhymes are:
We can judge the rhyme by asking:
And we can control our response to historical rhyme by asking:
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