History is supposed to teach us about the future. It's the concept of experience: you analyze something that's happened in the past and learn lessons from it. The thought is that these lessons prevent you from repeating mistakes in the future.
The problem with this is that we've lost a lot of objectivity about the past. If your analysis is biased, you won't learn anything. Instead, you'll just reinforce the bad behavior that led to the mistake in the first place. It's paramount to realize that every story has at least two sides and unless you analyze from both sides fairly and equally, you're not being objective. Look for the real reasons something happened. It's okay to note that there were gaps in your information as you made the decisions you made and it's even okay to label your own past judgements as flawed. Just be fair to the other sides.
To make this worse, the cycle of happen-analyze-archive is happening too quickly these days. People communicate more with the Internet than they ever did before it. This gives people the false sense that they know more about a situation than they really do. Thus they analyze prematurely and they have an immediate avenue by which they can memorialize their false analysis.
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