First of all, this sentence is a famous saying of the famous British Prime Minister Churchill.

Secondly, it can be discussed from many angles, ranging from an entire country or nation to a small enterprise or individual.

From the perspective of personal development:

First, a person’s good development prospects are based on a full understanding of oneself, and full understanding is based on On top of understanding your past, whether it was good or bad, you must be comprehensive enough, especially your past self. Summarize experience from the past to better provide rules for your own development.

Second, by understanding your past self, you can discover your strengths and weaknesses, correct them if you have them, and encourage them to make yourself more perfect.

Third, this sentence can also be understood as clearly understanding yourself determines your own height, and avoiding the two extremes of aiming too high and having too low goals.

The original English sentence is: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was a British politician, historian, painter, speaker, writer, and journalist. He was born into an aristocratic family. His father, Lord Randolph, served as the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England in 1874. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He is considered one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century. He led the British people to win the Second World War and was one of the "Big Three" of the Yalta Conference. , issued the "Iron Curtain Speech" after the war, officially opening the prelude to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Unnecessary War" and has written 16 volumes of "Memoirs of the Second World War" and 24 volumes of "History of the English-speaking Peoples". Churchill is one of the people with the largest number of English words in history (more than 120,000). He was listed by the American magazine "People" as one of the most persuasive speakers in the world in the past century. He once won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nominated. From 1929 to 1965, he served as President of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom for 36 consecutive years. In 2002, the BBC held a survey called "The 100 Greatest Britons", and Churchill was selected as the greatest Briton of all time.