"It’s sad how disconnected from the past and the future most of us really are. **We forget that woolly mammoths walked the earth while the pyramids were being built**. We don’t realize that Cleopatra lived closer to our time than she did to the construction of those famous pyramids that marked her kingdom. When British workers excavated the land in Trafalgar Square to build Nelson’s Column and its famous stone lions, in the ground they found the bones of actual lions, who’d roamed that exact spot just a few thousand years before. **Someone recently calculated that it takes but a chain of six individuals who shook hands with one another across the centuries to connect [[Barack Obama]] to [[George Washington]]**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[long-term-thinking]], [[humility]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]