The first mistake is information. The tenth identical one is a choice.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Getting something wrong the first time tells you something you did not know, which is how it is meant to work. Made repeatedly without anything changing, the same error stops being news, because by then the information has arrived and you are carrying on anyway. That is rarely a character problem. Usually it means nothing was ever built to catch it, and information only helps when something gets built from it.

Take the mistake you have made more than twice and set up one small barrier: a checklist, an alarm, a note stuck where it happens. Change the conditions rather than relying on memory.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which mistake have you made so often it is now deliberate?

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