Should we try to learn from our past when our perception of our past will always be distorted by our biases?

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if you look back at the past to try to analyze and learn from it we are going to look in the present based on the biases that we have acquired from the past so if we look back with those biases is it valuable is it a worthwhile understanding or will it only reinforce whatever conceptions we may have it’s possible that the biases may be self-reinforcing at the same time I am the only tool that I have so even if I have to go beyond my biases even if somebody who is unbiased tells me it’s I who will have to hear that person my perspective is biased his perspective is unbiased this makes more sense so whenever you talk about self-help it’s a huge genre of literature now there is implicit understanding that there is a self that needs help and there is a self that can offer help so in that sense there is always there is actually basically human beings we have the capacity for not just awareness but also awareness of our awareness that means all animals will get angry but human beings can become conscious oh I am getting angry maybe anger is not good, maybe I should not so basically lower species they are just driven by their impulses they act we are also driven by our impulses but we can look at our impulses and then stop those impulses from acting so basically the capacity to direct our awareness towards our own inner world that is what enables us to evaluate our own emotions yes I have a bias so for example I think that say life is rotten destiny always gives me a roddy that’s how I think now with this way when I think and I look back at the past and naturally I will look at all the times when things went wrong for me but if some success has come in my life that time I look what exactly happened this could have gone on, this could have gone on all this worked right that’s how things came that forces me to re-evaluate my own perceptions, it challenges my bias so I would say that that’s why there is a difference between lamenting about the past and learning from the past so when we lament on the past or the past basically it is our mind that is in control and just makes us think about that think about that and then we just keep worrying and dreading and we just become paralyzed but when we are in control and consciously take the mind backwards this is what happened, this is what I could have done if this had happened, I could have done like this basically if we are in control and then we are directing the consciousness backwards to evaluate then we can actually learn from it so the biases are there but we also have the capacity to notice and then correct our biases we may need some external inputs also for that but we do have that capacity without that capacity we would just be like program machines I have my bias and that’s how I stay but we all do change some people change to a smaller degree some people change to a greater degree and that possibility of change exists because we have the capacity to evaluate ourselves