You are not imagining it. Few things are more frustrating than finally figuring out why a problem keeps happening, only

You know the pattern. You have already done the smart-person thing. You journaled. You read the books. You asked “why”

You ask “why” five times, and somehow the answer is still “because I’m bad at this.” That is exhausting. It

You are not bad at self-awareness. You are probably bad at catching autopilot. That is why the usual “5 Whys”

You fix the same problem again and again, and it starts to feel personal. Why do I keep doing this?

You fix the thing. It breaks again. You hold the meeting. Everyone nods. Nothing changes. After a while, it starts

You fix the calendar. You rewrite the checklist. You set the reminder. Then, somehow, you still miss the deadline, snap

You can know the “root cause” of a problem and still keep repeating it. That is the maddening part. You

You know the meeting. Something went wrong. A shipment was missed, a patient chart was entered wrong, a server change

You fix the outage. You patch the process. You hold the meeting. Then, three months later, the same mess shows