Yesterday’s score doesn’t win you game today.
This topic is tricky, because its writing would depend on the interpretation, which can vary from
person to person, however, one way to cross-check that the interpretation is correct is to see if you can expand the dimensions without making mutually conflicting points. In this case the most general interpretation is one shouldn’t try to predict the future course of action by past experience merely.
It is a statement given in context of sports, but has wider implications in life in every sphere. People, countries, institutions, or other entities, tend to get influenced by history a lot, whereas forgetting
the fact that results are subject to certain conditions, and those can change over time. For example,
if a country had bad experience with economic reforms once, like India in 1985 Exim policy, it shouldn’t mean they shall stop from reforming in future. India in 1991 further opened up despite bad experience in 1985, which already had worsened the BoP situation, but we went ahead and were also successful. Also discuss the general importance of history, that history has valuable lessons for us and we shouldn’t ignore it either. We need to make sure, it doesn’t become the determining factor in our decisions, and remain merely a tool.
Most important of Example in today’s context is India China relations and Chinese foreign policy
China claims lot of territories from its neighbours, on the basis of its ancient maps. Which has led
to number of disputes, which include, South China Sea, Arunachal Pradesh, Doklam, etc. This is an
absurd approach as we can’t claim territories today on the basis of some ancient maps, for example,
if India will start doing so, it will have disputes with Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Java, Bali, Cambodia, Nepal, etc, because they were all Indian territory once, for certain period. Similarly, China should underestimate India and make references to 1962 results, in the context of Doklam crisis. They made advance, believing the past passive response and are now caught in a quagmire after strong and decisive confrontation from India.
Past failures shouldn’t kill the spirit of person (Psychological Perspective) Explain this with help of success stories as example.
Retributive justice is based on very idea to make a person atone/suffer for past acts without giving them chance of reforms. However, modern justice is based on reformative principles and considered to be better than former. Thus, we must get over past.
Each game is a new beginning and irrespective of how well a person did in previous game/version, he can’t be complacent in next.
In politics, there is no permeant enemy or friend, because they always keep all possible options open, and doesn’t have a trust or loyalty factor influencing them too much.
Thus, politics is not a respected
phenomenon. Thus, while we should be governed by history, we shall not become too opportunistic as well. Thus, history has a role and importance and we must not forget its lessons and experience.
Make a general assertion about day to day life, that we shouldn’t be biased or prejudiced against others and the very idiom that first impression is the last impression, may be practically followed, but is bad in principle and sometimes people have to suffer because of that.
Sum-up and give a balance perspective on past experiences. While is important and relevant, it shall not influence, much.