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3 Books That Will Help You Understand These Difficult Times
Because everyone needs a little hope right now
Have you ever stopped to ask what’s going on in the world right now?
Everyone seems to hate each other. We’ve had botched responses to a global pandemic where it’s hard to tell facts from disinformation. Violence in schools and racial tensions are on fire. And the media–don’t even get me started on the media.
Anxiety about the future is at an all-time high and things aren’t getting any better.
You have to wonder, have we ever been through anything like this before?
As Winston Churchill said, “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” That means if you want to understand where we’re headed, you need to understand where we’ve been. This is why reading and understanding history is so important. But there’s a problem.
Many adults shy away from history because school made it boring. It meant studying old dead people and memorizing arbitrary dates. Yawn.
We often fear the future because our perspective is limited. We can’t see the bigger picture and suffer anxiety from the day-to-day headlines. But I have learned that through reading about history I find a lot more peace in where we are…
