I Am A Slow Learner

Is it just me? I keep repeating the same mistakes. I try to solve, and re-solve, the same old problems. I am a slow learner. Or worse, I could be a never learner.

If I am only a billionth of a fraction like the computer you are using now, I would not have repeated the same mistake, and keep repeating. I can't imagine for a moment that this computer repeats the same mistake that has been corrected before.

Sometimes I really wonder why we are called the most intelligent animal. If we are that 'intelligent', how come I don't, am slow, or even outrightly never, learn? What do we use our intelligence for? I suppose for inventing far 'smarter' objects like this computer.

Even lowly animals appear to learn better than me. Look, if an animal has been trapped before and escaped successfully, it would be unlikely, ever, to be trapped again by the same set up. But, I fall, again and again, in the same trap.

Man has tried and successfully invent, reinvent, improve many stuffs. Look around us, in the last one hundred years, there have been many new inventions that have changed the way we go about living. Our brain works wonder in those areas. However, basic human nature and behaviour has hardly changed, for the last thousands of years. We are still the same selves that philosophies, religions and knowledge have tried to change, mostly unsuccessfully.

In the world of science, you wouldn't want to learn from a book that is more than a couple of ten years old. In computing world, anything more than two years old is positively prehistory. But, for humanistic studies, you are still fully up to date with the teachings of great persons who lived thousands of years ago.

Why? Am I unteachable?