Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking BackwardAlthough the idea of hindsight is frequently associated with the biases, distortions, and outright lies of memory as in the infamous 20 20 scenario or the conviction that one knew it all along Mark Freeman maintains that this process of looking backward over the terrain of the past can also serve as a profound source of insight, understanding, and self knowledge. Consider Tolstoy's harrowing tale of Ivan Ilych, revisiting his past on the eve of his