Mistakes That Stop Coming Back

What it is for

A short habit at the moment of every wrong answer - name the error type, write one line, repeat aloud - plus a weekly sort that collapses scattered mistakes into a handful of named patterns. Use it as soon as you notice the same errors recurring. It prevents a year of practice in which nothing is ever actually corrected.

The skill Copy

Do this every time you get an item wrong. It takes forty seconds and it is
the only part of the session that changes anything.

At the moment you get it wrong:
1. Before tapping continue, name the kind of error out loud: wrong word,
   wrong ending, wrong word order, wrong gender, heard it wrong, or "I
   guessed". "I guessed" is the most important answer - mark it honestly,
   because a lucky tap is not knowledge.
2. Write one line in a notebook: the sentence, your version, the correct
   version. Not a screenshot. Writing it is the work.
3. Say the correct sentence aloud twice before continuing.

Once a week:
- Spend a session on the practice that replays what you got wrong, instead
  of a new lesson. It feels less rewarding and teaches more.
- Read your notebook and group the lines. You do not have eighty mistakes;
  you have about five patterns repeated.
- For each pattern write the rule in one sentence, in your own words. If
  you cannot state it, look it up or ask a person - the app will not
  explain it unprompted.

Once a month:
- Delete lines you have not repeated in three weeks. It is a working set,
  not an archive. Past one page you will stop reading it.

Failure this prevents: making the same three mistakes for a year, because
tapping continue after a red screen felt like it counted as review.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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