The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Kaahe chup sadhi rahe balwan! Jambavan asked hanuman, who was seating like a common monkey, who has forgotten his powers. He made hanuman to see backward what he had done in past, the capacity he has, which made hanuman to realise his own powers and look forward to see his actual mission of life. The story reminds us that one has to look backward in life many times to take future steps and to look the farthest possible.

The past is filled with many incidents which are nothing, but helping hands for the future to look beyond the normal capacity to the farthest possible point, the point that would have not been that far if we couldn't have looked far backward. In this essay, we will discuss that how looking backward and incorporating learnings, experience, and wisdom makes us to move forward in life, also we will discuss, why it's not always a good strategy to stuck with backward orientation. when we say looking farther backward it means selectively understanding the past situations, which could guide us in the present so that our ability to look forward can reach the farthest possible point. we tend to analyze our past incidents, that how we acted particularly in any situation earlier and the response we got to it, is what we get from backward look, the way famous story teller zakir khan said, it's his ability to look backward to the various incidents and analyze them could make it possible for him to look forward to the point, which people would want from him, this analysis made him to look forward at a point, due to his ability to look farther backward to the past incidents. The backward looking, gives one the natural wisdom and experience to judge the present situations, this natural wisdom prepares for any future incident or obstruction that might hamper the forward steps to the farthest point, this is how once failed space startup, SpaceX, and its owner Elon Musk, due to the wisdom he got with past experiences and the backward looking attitude, he could eye to the mars, the space tourism, which is farthest one could look in present context. The backward looking attitude, makes one to see the past decisions one had taken already and landed them to the present situation, which gives them the ability to form and plan the decisions in such a way that they can land where they look themselves forward in the life, to the point which might not be achieved if those decisions from past could not show the path for the point that lies ahead, that lies forward.

In present context, when we say AI as the future, which can show forward point, it is possible for it to do so, because it is loaded with all those backward instances, the data from very begining, which made AI to look forward, the point, which is presently farthest. But backward looking is not fruitful always, it many times makes an individual to get stuck in the past. which rather pulls them farther backward than farther forward. Backward looking orientation many times ends up in romanticizing the past only and trying to get the same water in the flowing river of life. When 1857 sepoy mutiny happened, it didnot see participation of many middle class intellegenia because they believed, in place of taking lessons from the past, they are further trying to move backward rather than forward, which limited revolt's success. Backward looking not always gives the direction for future's forward steps, the forward steps have to deal with many new things that backward stories may not be even aware about, which makes individual unprepared, and vulnerable to the shocks of forward steps, rather than any fruitful lessons for the direction. The forward steps lies in the adapting to the changes that we are likely to see, to survive in dynamic world, which Nokia couldnot, as they kept on looking backward towards the legacy they had, which ultimately marked fullstop to their legacy by being overtly backward looking rather than skeptically utilising The balance of the journey to see and plan for further forward lies in balance of past with orientation of forward.

one should definately look backward, but farther to the limit that it helps in learning for future, and it comes through self upgradation which balances the experience with dynamism of future and makes one to look farther forward one likely to see. The backward orientation should go hand in hand with planning for the future, which makes one to overcome to obstacles with the prudent behaviour, ladened in the conscience from the past, making the action itself dynamic rather than overly diving into any one extreme of axis, that is purely backward or overly forward. And one should not hesitate to take help of other to find the golden mean of backward and forward, many has done it already, this is how the Narendar became the Vivekanand, who took help of Ramkrishna, who gave him knowledge from farther backwards, but also prepared him to adapt to the learnings for the future, which was farthest of the time, makes his thoughts eternal. Forward orientation of Hanuman could have not been possible if he had not look farther backward, and his future Dharma could not have been possible if he had not taken any actions for the forward orientation. If you risk nothing, you risk everything The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Backward knowledge/experience -> Forward Thesis -> Jitna piche ka gyan hoga, utna aage soch sakoge ya aage ke actions le paoge. kaalhi chup sadhi Rahe Balwan! Anti -> Par kai bar admi piche ki chizo me khojata hai or aage nahi badh pata isliye use aage ki sochkar chalna chahiye Thesis -> Farther Backward how and why -> - Analyzing - explain - Experience - no exp - wisdom, it makes you have wisdom & explain Consequence -> Prudent decisions - Teaches you basics eg. Tesla musk failure experience (wisdom) -> forward looking Space tourism eg. Sam manekshaw experience of partition war Anti 1) It will just romanticize past. eg. 1857 sepoy mutiny 2) Not be able to adapt to new changes - if keep rooted in previous. eg. Nokia failure Backward legacy 3) May bring back the traumas. Synthesis $\rightarrow$ learn from past $\oplus$ learn for future $\searrow$ look at past but plan for future