This failure mode is definitely real. OTOH, demands for immediate, legible results can kill off many valuable options. There are major improvements in my life that are measurable (e.g. ability to take moral stands when people are yelling at me, ability to think on my feet while anxious) but can’t be attributed to any one action[1]. If you took away everything that couldn’t objectively justify itself in a few months, I’d be much worse off, even though probably a good chunk of what was cut was valueless.
This failure mode is definitely real. OTOH, demands for immediate, legible results can kill off many valuable options. There are major improvements in my life that are measurable (e.g. ability to take moral stands when people are yelling at me, ability to think on my feet while anxious) but can’t be attributed to any one action[1]. If you took away everything that couldn’t objectively justify itself in a few months, I’d be much worse off, even though probably a good chunk of what was cut was valueless.
or can be attributed to specific actions, but only partially. The sum of improvements with traceable causes is far less than the total improvement.