A more general version of this: You, being vaguely competent, are where you are because it is a local optima. Always, to progress to a better state, you are go

A more general version of this: You, being vaguely competent, are where you are because it is a local optima. Always, to progress to a better state, you are going to take at least some steps down a hill to get there. Sometimes a lot of them. We end up in situations bc the paths past/out of them are not obvious or easy. Don't let an obsession for every step being 'improvement' prevent you from taking the messy up and down path to get somewhere better.