The next day the peasant did not till the field. He cast his plough aside and started watching that tree, hoping that he would get another hare. Days and months went by and yet he never caught another hare. Soon the people of Sung discovered this ridiculous behaviour and started teasing the peasant. But the peasant would never give up watching the tree trunk because he thought that history would repeat itself.
People say that history repeats itself.
What really happens is that people tend to make the same foolish mistake. Or they feel that old strategies can be repeated. Some think that if one gambit has been successful in the past than it will be effective again and again. But the wise men do not follow the ways of the ancients, nor do they believe in establishing any fixed standard for all times to come. Rather, they would examine the things of their age and time and then prepare to deal with them appropriately.