#1361 - it burns
I got sunburnt.
Again.
At least once a year, I make this mistake.
And every time, I look at myself in the mirror, I tell myself I won't do it again.
How comes I keep repeating some mistakes?
I know how to avoid them. I have the knowledge and the agency to do better. Yet, somehow I forget all of that.
Not every mistake. Fortunately, many lessons have stuck. But there are a few lessons that my brain refuses to learn.
There must be something weird in how the brain, or at least my brain, deals with errors.
And it looks like I may not be wrong in thinking that.
Research shows that the human brain doesn't always learn from errors.
When we do things repeatedly, the brain creates neural pathways without discriminating between right and wrong. And when we have to make choices, we usually follow those existing pathways.
From what I understood from this article, when we make a mistake, our brain spends so much time trying to understand why it happened that it forgets to save the lesson.
So, maybe I should stop thinking of how I screwed up and move on.