Valuable advice you've got here! At the end of the day, when one follows your advice, one ends up forming habits based on your advice which leads to what we were trying to avoid in the first place — knee-jerk reactions.

We are creatures of habits — it makes life easier for us, it helps us drive cars without thinking about driving (like it's a second nature), it helps instrumentalists play musical instruments without thinking about it and so on.

As a matter of fact not being predictive already makes one predictive in some sense.

Since history keeps repeating itself because humans keep repeating the same mistakes, we can mitigate this by:

Learning, unlearning and relearning