The Dawn of Civilization: financial records.

Not writing down your financial records, no matter how small, is similar to meeting tribes that do not read or write.

Many human tribes have existed for thousands of years without a written history. No one knows their past, except for the oral stories they’ve passed on. And their bones. Other than that, they have nothing.

For some reason, when tribes began to write down their history, ideas, and progress they advance.

Maybe it is the same for us.

Will we see advancement when we begin to record what comes in and out financially in our lives?

Why not start today?

What will our personal and professional advancement look like when we begin to record our past, ideas, and progress?

I’m not exactly sure how certain it is, but I read once that all of ancient civilization started because some business men needed a way to record their transactions, and from there writing began. I think it was cuneiform.

*update*

I did a little more research.

“Mesopotamia’s “proto-literate” period spans the 35th to 32nd centuries. The first documents unequivocally written in the Sumerian language date to the 31st century, found at Jemdet Nasr.
The Sumerians of the Uruk period used clay tokens to count their agricultural and manufactured foods. They would place the tokens in hollow clay containers and mark the lids with the number of tokens inside. They impressed a picture of the token inside as many times as the amount of tokens. Later they realized that they would not have to use the tokens and the scripture on the containers and started using only the scripture. So they would not have to write 100 pictures for 100 tokens they started making symbols for an amount of tokens. Thus writing began.[2]“

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