The human species is both blessed and cursed with an impressive power of recall. Recall allows us to review the past, searching for wins to replicate and losses to learn from. When we contemplate the present and future, sequences — the order of things — are difficult to ascertain or predict with any accuracy, but in scanning the past we can often easily see connections that escaped us at the time. We may notice that action B resulted from action A or that more activity in this particular venue at a particular time would have prevented this particular outcome. The power of recall is an important and mostly positive skill, but recall can also cripple us with regret and the subsequent need to overcompensate in future endeavors.

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