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What does it mean?
The author highlights uncertainty about both past and future.
In plain terms
I don’t know what came or what’s coming.
What can you take from it?
Accept uncertainty in time.

Where it applies

  • reflection
  • planning

Putting it to work

  • live present
  • avoid assumptions

Questions to consider

  • What do you accept not knowing?

Another view

Some things remain unknowable.

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