Our hindsight glasses are tinted, and in some cases, the prescription is not right for us. If we analyze the situation quite carefully, however, we will typically find what we would expect to find in human nature: bias. What we experience in the aftermath of an event may feel similar to donning glasses and suddenly finding ourselves able to see the situation clearly, whereas before it all seemed confused and blurry. To continue with the eyesight analogy, we may describe hindsight as putting on a pair of glasses. Questioning the 20/20 assumption and considering the real relationship between foreknowledge, disruptive events and hindsight can prove helpful in more effectively approaching multiple aspects of life, from career plans to business performance to personal life. Nonetheless, hindsight isnвЂ™t 20/20, and even if it were, that would not always be good enough. Valuing hindsight stems rightly from an appreciation that if we can identify what would have either prevented or made us better prepared to weather prior events, we can better prepare for future events. Even if a specific event could not have been expected and will never happen again, something else will happen. Either way, weвЂ™re undoubtedly right to look back to see what we can learn. Perhaps we sometimes say it to encourage this exercise of backward-looking analysis.ДЄt times, we may be correct in concluding that an event could not have been anticipated. вЂњOf course,вЂќ we may comment, вЂњhindsight is always 20/20.вЂќ We may say this in an attempt to console ourselves or others for not anticipating the actual outcome when it seems so obvious now.

We compare our prior expectations of how things would pan out against our current perspective.

In the aftermath of events, we often look back to analyze our decisions and experiences.

Retrospect glasses