Checking your mirrors is smart. Driving by them is how you crash.

Looking back is information and it is not direction. A quick check tells you what is behind, and it takes about a second, which is all it is for. Spend the drive staring into it and you will hit the thing in front of you, because the past is detailed and completely finished. Nothing that is going to happen is in there.

Give the old situation a fixed, short amount of attention: what it taught you, then close it. If you keep returning to the same replay, that is a sign it wants a conversation or a decision, not another viewing. Then look forward.