Name: 英語の家庭教師ニックPの箴言(129) 先見の明は後知恵よりも優れている (English Tutor Nick P Proverbs(129) Foresight is Better Than Hindsight)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Proverbs 129. The proverb today is

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foresight is better than hindsight. Now remember, foresight that's when you can

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try to anticipate or look into the future about possible things that might

happen. Hindsight is after bad things happen and you're looking backward and

you're saying,  oh I should have done this or I should have done that. We often say

we always know something that we should have done in hindsight. After it's

already over. Then we were much smarter and we know what we should

have done. So let's continue with the note here. This proverb basically means

it is better to anticipate and try to prevent future problems. So trying to see

where future problems might be coming and try to do something just in case

they did come. Then to only realize how it could have been averted or

avoided . Averted you know,  you got out of the way of it or you were able to take care

of it. So that they the bad thing did not affect you too seriously before the

fact. Before the fact that it actually happens.  Okay. We have a couple of

examples here. Example number one even though,  many people mocked preppers. Yeah.

A number of years ago we're hearing about a lot of prepers ,  especially people

that were worried about you know,  a financial crash, a worldwide crash and they were

trying to save up a lot,  just in case this happened and it wouldn't be able to

get supplies and things like that. So even though many people mocked them,  some

people made fun of them,  there were a number of cases where bad storms had

negatively affected many areas. Now even though they were preparing for her a

large financial crash and that didn't happen,  they were still prepared. They

were prepared for any sort of disaster and so when some disasters did strike

and everybody else was in a bad situation because they weren't prepared

the preppers were. So in these cases the preppers were prepared because they

thought foresight was better than hindsight. So even though it wasn't

exactly what they were expecting,  they were still prepared because they it was

the same sort of preparations that you needed

for that. Maybe even,  maybe even more because maybe you were preparing for a

longer period of time. This bad storm was probably only shorter. So you're one of

the few people that's prepared . In that case you might even be able to help a

few people. Not everybody,  but a few.  Okay.  Let's look at the second one here. Some

people buy insurance because they believe that foresight is better than

hindsight. Yeah.  I mean that's what they always tell you when they try to get you

to buy insurance too. You know just in case something bad happened,

then you'd be covered. You have some insurance for it. This is why people do

that. Sometimes. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your