The unfortunate part about human history is its tendency to repeat itself. While the appearance of the repetition may look different and be masked in other details, everything about its nature is identical to before.

There’s a trend now in education to speak about the six c’s (global competencies) that are necessary for the twenty first century. Except… for that tiny detail that each of those c’s have been necessary skills for all of human history.

You would be hard pressed to tell me critical thinking wasn’t a big part of the enlightenment era, or that citizenship was on the back burner during our world wars. These are skills we’ve always been speaking about, but we’ve just given it new language.

On the plus side of this cyclical nature of re-imaging ideas from our past is whatever you missed, will come back again. If it has become out of fashion, the pendulum will swing back the other way soon enough.

We see it with the push back of our hyper-connected technological infrastructure. 

We’re about to see another resurgence in spiritual belief as a global pandemic of mental health breakdown is pushing people towards these roads. Just watching the barrage of articles and research on the effects of meditation on the mind was a big clue of this happening.

It’s taxing (physically and mentally) to keep jumping from one trend to another. If you’re feeling exhausted, stay on one and the world will come back around again eventually.