{"id":1628,"date":"2026-08-10T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehan.life\/en\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:44:10","slug":"why-we-repeat-the-same-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehan.life\/en\/why-we-repeat-the-same-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Repeat the Same Mistakes: Why Reflection Alone Didn\u2019t Get You Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap'); .nh-body{color:#3a352e;line-height:2.0;font-family:\"Zen Old Mincho\",\"Yu Mincho\",\"Hiragino Mincho ProN\",\"Yu Mincho\",serif;font-weight:400} .nh-body p{margin:0 0 22px}.nh-body strong{font-weight:600;background:linear-gradient(transparent 62%,#D8E4CF 62%);padding:0 1px} .nh-body h2{font-family:\"Zen Old Mincho\",serif;font-size:23px;font-weight:600;color:#2c2922;letter-spacing:.04em;line-height:1.6;margin:66px 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#D9CEBB;border-bottom:none} .nh-refs p,.nh-refs li{font-size:10.5px;line-height:1.5;color:#a59c8c;margin:0 0 3px} .nh-refs ul,.nh-refs ol{margin:0 0 3px;padding-left:1.1em} .nh-refs a{color:#9aa890;word-break:break-all} .nh-lead{background:#F7FAF6;border:1px solid #E0DBC9;border-left:4px solid #52684A;border-radius:2px;padding:22px 26px;margin:6px 0 42px} .nh-lead__label{display:block;font-family:\"Avenir\",\"Avenir Next\",\"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.3em;font-weight:600;color:#52684A;margin:0 0 12px} .nh-lead ul.nh-check{margin:0}.nh-lead .nh-check li{padding:8px 8px 8px 34px;font-size:15px}.nh-lead .nh-check li:last-child{border-bottom:0}<\/style>\n<div class=\"nh-body\">\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"nh-check\">\n<li>The psychology behind repeating the same mistakes involves both the brain\u2019s learning circuitry for stopping unhelpful behavior and the way we make meaning of failure.<\/li>\n<li>The more you think, \u201cI\u2019ll fail again,\u201d the more tense you become\u2014and the more likely you are to act in line with that prediction.<\/li>\n<li>The way in is not to reflect harder. It is to revisit a mistake as one specific behavior, in concrete terms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monday morning, 9:12 a.m. A chat message arrives from your manager: \u201cThe numbers in this document are wrong.\u201d Your stomach tightens, like the sound of train doors closing on the commute. As you apologize, you may already be repeating another sentence in your head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I go again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You put things off until just before the deadline. You over-accommodate someone you find difficult. On the way home from a night out, you message the person you had decided you would never contact again. Even after changing jobs, you somehow choose a version of the same struggle you had in the last workplace.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know this. Every time, you think, \u201cNext time will be different,\u201d and then find yourself falling in the same place, in the same way. What makes it harder is that even the part after the fall tends to repeat: blaming yourself. Life does not need to reproduce the same scene quite so faithfully.<\/p>\n<p>The psychology of repeating the same mistakes is a loop: predictions and feelings shaped by past failures narrow your attention, judgment, and behavior in the next situation, leading you to recreate a similar action.<\/p>\n<p>Did you think, \u201cThis is going to be another lecture about mindset\u201d? That caution is reasonable. If this could be reduced to grit or positive thinking, you can stop reading here. The idea that mistakes happen because you lack determination is far too crude.<\/p>\n<p>I think the belief that more reflection always changes people is half a lie. If reflection becomes another confirmation that \u201cI\u2019m no good,\u201d it is not learning. It is rereading the same script. You can hold a postmortem for hours, but if your next move does not change, it is not reflection. It is a self-criticism contest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-quote\">When you turn a mistake into your personality, you can no longer observe what you do next.<\/div>\n<h2>Your brain does not automatically stop you from repeating what went wrong<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nh-article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nehan.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/same-failure-repeat-psychology-img-1.png\" alt=\"\u540c\u3058\u5931\u6557\u3092\u7e70\u308a\u8fd4\u3059\u5fc3\u7406\uff1a\u53cd\u7701\u3057\u3066\u3082\u629c\u3051\u51fa\u305b\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531 \u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8 1\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with something slightly surprising. Dopamine is often thought of as the chemical of pleasure or reward. Something involved when you eat something sweet, receive a notification, or get the reply you wanted.<\/p>\n<p>But a 2023 mouse study published by Professor Takatoshi Hikida and colleagues at Osaka University suggested that dopamine D2 receptor-expressing neurons in the nucleus accumbens\u2014known as D2 neurons\u2014are involved in suppressing repeated failure-related behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, suppressing D2 neuron activity made it harder for mice to stop behavior that led to failure, significantly increasing repetition. Stimulating that activity, on the other hand, strengthened suppression of the failure-related behavior. This research cannot be applied directly to humans. Still, it offers a fairly sobering challenge to the assumption that once you fail, you will naturally stop doing the thing that caused it.<\/p>\n<p>The brain is not an editor that simply marks up a failed experience in red pen. Under fatigue, urgency, and familiar rewards, it can be a system that readily replays the usual behavior. Sometimes the action that brings a little immediate relief leaves a stronger trace than the memory of the mistake itself. Miss this, and you may turn \u201cI know better, but I still did it\u201d into more evidence against yourself than it needs to be.<\/p>\n<p>Picture 11:20 p.m. You are standing in the kitchen, looking at the dishes. \u201cTomorrow morning is fine,\u201d you think, and open your phone. You watch one video, and suddenly it is midnight. The next morning, you rush out the door and think, once again, \u201cI\u2019m such a mess.\u201d If you have repeated this in front of the sink, the scene may feel familiar.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening here is less a failure to wash dishes than a replay of a circuit that chooses immediate distraction when you are tired. That is not a character flaw.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-point\">\n<p class=\"nh-point__label\">POINT<\/p>\n<p>To stop repeating an action, it is often more useful to look closely at what happened just before it than to make a sweeping judgment that you \u201cfailed.\u201d The time, place, physical exhaustion, or something another person said\u2014behavior is usually pulled along by these ordinary conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The important thing is not to stop at the conclusion, \u201cI looked at my phone again.\u201d Had you been holding yourself together since dinner? Were you dreading tomorrow\u2019s schedule? Were there simply too many dishes, so you felt done before you had even begun?<\/p>\n<p>The brain has a generous budget for producing excuses. But that also means that when you can see the conditions, you can begin to see where change is possible.<\/p>\n<h2>When \u201cfailure\u201d stays vague, learning is hard to do<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nh-article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nehan.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/same-failure-repeat-psychology-img-2.png\" alt=\"\u540c\u3058\u5931\u6557\u3092\u7e70\u308a\u8fd4\u3059\u5fc3\u7406\uff1a\u53cd\u7701\u3057\u3066\u3082\u629c\u3051\u51fa\u305b\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531 \u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8 2\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 1898, Thorndike introduced the idea of trial-and-error learning. Put simply, behaviors that lead to good results tend to remain, while behaviors that lead to undesirable results tend to weaken.<\/p>\n<p>But learning cannot move forward unless you can recognize the failure accurately, remember it, and work with what caused it. This is where it gets difficult. The moment you process \u201cThat sales meeting did not go well\u201d as \u201cI don\u2019t have talent for sales,\u201d the thing you might change next disappears. Was it the order in which you spoke? A lack of preparation? Not asking about the client\u2019s budget? It all gets bundled together.<\/p>\n<p>It is like having a fever and only saying, \u201cMy body is weak,\u201d without checking your temperature or symptoms. When you turn the cause into a broad statement about your personality, you lose the ability to respond to it. People often say you should reflect deeply after a mistake. But I think you should look closely before you look deeply. Finding the action just before the problem is far more practical than trying to fix your personality.<\/p>\n<p>It is 6 p.m. on Friday, and an online meeting has ended. Your face on screen looked strangely tired, and you leave thinking, \u201cI couldn\u2019t read the room again.\u201d But when you review the recording or your notes, you may find that the issue was not reading the room at all. You moved the conversation forward without asking about the deadline in the first five minutes, when you needed to.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever closed your laptop after a meeting and had just one remark keep replaying in your head? If you give the mistake the wrong name, you may make a misdirected effort next time: \u201cI need to sound more pleasant,\u201d instead of changing what actually mattered.<\/p>\n<p>What exhausts people in a postmortem may be less the mistake itself than the suspended feeling of not knowing what to fix. You say, \u201cI\u2019ll be more careful next time,\u201d while not being sure what, exactly, you need to be careful about. That is draining.<\/p>\n<p>So your note on the day of a mistake does not need to be an impressive journal entry. Thirty seconds in a notes app is enough. These four points will do:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"nh-check\">\n<li><strong>What happened:<\/strong> Write it like camera footage, without evaluative language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What did you predict just before it happened?<\/strong> Notice thoughts such as \u201cThey\u2019ll say no\u201d or \u201cThis will get complicated.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is one thing you will change next time?<\/strong> Choose one sequence, time, or phrase\u2014not a personality trait.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Was there an example of it going well?<\/strong> However small, do not erase it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of writing, \u201cI procrastinated on work again,\u201d write: \u201cAt 3 p.m., I opened the estimate. I felt anxious that the numbers might not add up, so I started replying to emails first. Next time, I will spend ten minutes checking the numbers only.\u201d Now you have a place to make a change next time.<\/p>\n<p>This is not about monitoring yourself. It is about returning a mistake from the crude conclusion, \u201cThis is the kind of person I am,\u201d to an event with conditions. You are not bad. Under certain conditions, a certain response appeared. Return to that much. That is where learning can finally begin.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cI\u2019ll fail again\u201d can set up the next failure<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nh-article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nehan.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/same-failure-repeat-psychology-img-3.png\" alt=\"\u540c\u3058\u5931\u6557\u3092\u7e70\u308a\u8fd4\u3059\u5fc3\u7406\uff1a\u53cd\u7701\u3057\u3066\u3082\u629c\u3051\u51fa\u305b\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531 \u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8 3\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>Psychology has a concept called the self-fulfilling prophecy. A prediction such as \u201cI\u2019m bound to fail again\u201d creates tension and anxiety; that state changes how you act, and can bring about an outcome closer to what you predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism can be fairly direct:<\/p>\n<p>You predict failure \u2192 your self-efficacy drops \u2192 your body shifts toward a guarded state \u2192 your field of attention narrows \u2192 you avoid checking or asking questions \u2192 the ingredients for failure increase.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when the mistake happens, the prediction is reinforced: \u201cSee? I knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brain is less a fortune-teller than something like a director that rushes your behavior to match its forecast. The moment you decide, \u201cI\u2019ll fail again,\u201d your view narrows. The room to check, or to ask someone, gets smaller. The prediction then appears to have come true. But sometimes it was not a prophecy fulfilled\u2014it was a prediction pushing the behavior along.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning. You are standing in front of the convenience store register, about to call a client. You remember, \u201cI explained this badly last time.\u201d Your throat goes dry. You start speaking too fast. The other person pauses for a second, you panic, and without checking your understanding, you say, \u201cThen let\u2019s go in that direction,\u201d and end the call. That afternoon, you discover you were not aligned after all.<\/p>\n<p>After hanging up, you may think, \u201cI really am bad at explaining things.\u201d But your ability did not suddenly disappear. The prediction rushed your attention and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation bias is involved here, too. If you hold the belief, \u201cI\u2019m someone who fails,\u201d you tend to collect evidence that supports it and minimize moments when things went well. You may have replied to nine out of ten messages, yet lie in bed replaying the one you left on read. Sometimes the editing policy in your mind affects your behavior more strongly than an objective scorecard does.<\/p>\n<p>Are you collecting only evidence of failure? Do you skim past emails that praise you, then reopen a brief piece of criticism again and again? People can be strangely good at storing material for blaming themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the moment for the vague instruction to \u201cbe confident.\u201d On days when you do not feel confident, trying to manufacture it usually means you are out of stock. Instead, do not treat a prediction as fact.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than \u201cI fail,\u201d try: \u201cRight now, a prediction that I will fail is showing up.\u201d That small shift can create some distance between you and the prediction.<\/p>\n<p>And what changes when there is distance? Before the call, you may look at your notes once. You may begin with, \u201cThere are two things I\u2019d like to confirm.\u201d You may avoid rushing to answer and say, \u201cI\u2019ll take this back and organize my thoughts.\u201d There is room for a small action to enter.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to trust yourself completely. You just do not have to hand the driver\u2019s seat to the prediction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-cards\">\n<div class=\"nh-card\">\n<p class=\"nh-card__t\"><strong>Putting off work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-card__d\">Before the feeling of \u201cThis is too much,\u201d you can identify which task you are avoiding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-card\">\n<p class=\"nh-card__t\"><strong>Conflict in relationships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-card__d\">Instead of \u201cThey hate me again,\u201d you can notice your automatic response to one thing the other person said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-card\">\n<p class=\"nh-card__t\"><strong>Spending money<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-card__d\">Rather than focusing only on regret after buying, you can find the fatigue or loneliness that was present just before the purchase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-card\">\n<p class=\"nh-card__t\"><strong>Choices in love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-card__d\">Instead of \u201cI always choose the same type,\u201d you can revisit a habit of choosing tension over steadiness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Loops that will not shift through willpower alone need time in a different environment<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nh-article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nehan.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/same-failure-repeat-psychology-img-4.png\" alt=\"\u540c\u3058\u5931\u6557\u3092\u7e70\u308a\u8fd4\u3059\u5fc3\u7406\uff1a\u53cd\u7701\u3057\u3066\u3082\u629c\u3051\u51fa\u305b\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531 \u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8 4\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNext time, I\u2019ll be more careful\u201d is not a bad thing to say. But trying to stop the same response through willpower alone\u2014while surrounded by the same room, the same notifications, and the same relationship dynamics\u2014can be deeply exhausting. When you are on high alert, the brain tends to prioritize familiar choices over new ones.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, you check work chat while leaving the dishes undone. Or you open a message thread again and again simply because someone has not replied. In these familiar places, your body and mind quickly begin playing their familiar roles. \u201cI know what I should do, but I can\u2019t do it\u201d is not only about weak will. It can also be about staying inside the same cues for too long.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think of a retreat as simply resting in nature. To me, a retreat is not escapist healing; it is a training ground for updating the way you relate to your life. Understanding something intellectually and having your responses in daily life actually change are different things. If knowledge alone could stop these loops, nobody would still be struggling after a quick search online.<\/p>\n<p>nehan\u2019s *Journey to See Your Life Flash Before Your Eyes*, held in Yatsugatake, is a two-night, three-day process designed to help you revisit response patterns that can be difficult to access through ordinary thinking alone. It works with sound resonance, breath-based practices, and body awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is not to erase painful memories. It is to create distance between you and older responses such as \u201cI go silent when I feel criticized\u201d or \u201cWhen I panic, I make too many promises.\u201d Even when you understand something with your head, working through the body can sometimes open a starting point for another choice. Experiences naturally vary from person to person, but a thoughtfully designed space away from daily life can help interrupt the usual script.<\/p>\n<p>You may be thinking, \u201cTaking a break will not make my real-life problems disappear, will it?\u201d That is true. Work deadlines, difficult people, and credit card bills will still be there. But you may move from a state where the only option was to respond the same way every time, to one where you can pause for a beat.<\/p>\n<p>That beat is unglamorous, but significant. You can stop before sending the reply. You can reconsider a request you could not usually decline. When you are about to make a rushed decision, you can say, \u201cI\u2019ll get back to you tomorrow.\u201d Life changes more often than we think at these small forks in the road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-steps\">\n<div class=\"nh-step\"><span class=\"nh-step__no\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-step__body\">\n<p class=\"nh-step__t\"><strong>Find what the reaction is made of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-step__d\">Reframe \u201cI failed again\u201d as a sequence of emotion, prediction, and behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-step\"><span class=\"nh-step__no\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-step__body\">\n<p class=\"nh-step__t\"><strong>Ease the mind\u2019s guard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-step__d\">In a safe environment, bring attention to bodily sensations as well, and work with what thinking alone may not reach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-step\"><span class=\"nh-step__no\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-step__body\">\n<p class=\"nh-step__t\"><strong>Carry it into everyday choices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-step__d\">When the same situation comes again, develop the capacity to pause for a beat rather than react automatically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>People who repeat mistakes are not people who cannot learn. Often, they begin blaming themselves too quickly for learning to happen first. If you can slow that speed down a little, different things become visible.<\/p>\n<p>When you are about to say, \u201cHere I go again,\u201d please do not issue a verdict on your personality. What happened? What were you afraid of just before it? If you could change one thing next time, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p>Start there. Rather than increasing the amount of reflection, revisit the situation in concrete terms. I believe that is the most honest entry point out of the loop of repeating the same mistakes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nh-article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nehan.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/same-failure-repeat-psychology-img-5.png\" alt=\"\u540c\u3058\u5931\u6557\u3092\u7e70\u308a\u8fd4\u3059\u5fc3\u7406\uff1a\u53cd\u7701\u3057\u3066\u3082\u629c\u3051\u51fa\u305b\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531 \u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8 5\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q: Does repeating the same mistake mean I have weak willpower?<\/strong> A: It is too simplistic to explain it through willpower alone. Fatigue, anxiety, past predictions, environmental cues, and learning circuitry involved in stopping unhelpful behavior can overlap. You do not need to decide that your willpower is weak. Start by looking at the conditions just before the mistake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: I reflect on it again and again, but nothing changes. Does that mean I have not reflected enough?<\/strong> A: The issue may be less the amount of reflection than the resolution of what you are looking at. \u201cI\u2019m no good\u201d does not change behavior. What time was it? Whose words affected you? What prediction appeared? What did you do? Returning to specifics can reveal options for next time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How does a retreat relate to the loop of repeating the same mistakes?<\/strong> A: A retreat offers time away from your usual roles and schedule to look at the connections among thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses. In *Journey to See Your Life Flash Before Your Eyes*, we work with creating distance from response patterns repeated over many years, and with finding openings to reconsider everyday choices.<\/p>\n<p>To stop repeating the same mistake, the first step is not to scold yourself more. It is to understand\u2014through felt experience as well as thought\u2014what carried you toward that behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In our free online course, we share ideas and processes for taking that perspective beyond knowledge and into real-world change. If you want to revisit your response patterns without attacking yourself, let\u2019s continue the conversation there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-cta\">\n<p class=\"nh-cta__eyebrow\">FREE PROGRAM<\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-cta__title\">A doorway to seeing your life anew \u2014 through the body<\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-cta__lead\">Add us on LINE to receive the free online lessons \u2014 the parts we couldn&#8217;t fit into this article.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nh-cta__rule\"><\/div>\n<p>  <a class=\"nh-cta__btn\" href=\"https:\/\/om.nehan.life\/line\/open\/XOyz4TM3QCnV\" style=\"color:#fff !important;text-decoration:none\"><span class=\"label\" style=\"color:#fff !important\">Get the free lessons on LINE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"nh-cta__note\">Free to join, unsubscribe anytime. This is not medical treatment; results vary by individual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nh-refs\">\n<h2>Sources \/ References<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"nh-check\">\n<li>Osaka University (2023). Research announcement by Professor Takatoshi Hikida and colleagues on dopamine D2 receptor-expressing neurons in the nucleus accumbens and the suppression of failure-related behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Thorndike, E. L. (1898). Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals.<\/li>\n<li>Merton, R. K. (1948). The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. The Antioch Review.<\/li>\n<li>Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises. Review of General Psychology.<\/li>\n<li>American Psychological Association, APA Dictionary of Psychology: self-fulfilling prophecy \/ confirmation bias<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*This article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical, psychological, or mental health advice. Individual experiences and outcomes vary. 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