Hill Climbing : A Trap?
A key strategy for getting better at things is hill-climbing : try different things, keep doing the things that work, stop doing those that don’t.
It likely explains how we get better at many things simply by doing them repeatedly. Where this strategy runs into trouble, however, is when you need to do something worse before you can do it better.
Interestingly, learning itself seems to be one of these situations. The actions that improve your short-term performance on a task don’t always create much long-term improvement. Since short-term effects are easier to notice, this can create a trap.
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