I do think basically none of this makes sense if you don’t have some particular flavor of ambitious goals. If you don’t have ambitious goals that (probably) depend on leveling up a bunch, then yeah, don’t do that. (unless you intrinsically value the leveling up)
If you sort-of-kind-of have ambitious goals, but you’re not totally bought into them, or have mixed feelings about them, then you probably want to somehow resolve that (which I don’t think is a “deliberate practice” shaped problem, more like a therapy/emotional processing problem, or a “just find a fun project or better work environment that makes things more naturally motivating” problem)
I do think basically none of this makes sense if you don’t have some particular flavor of ambitious goals. If you don’t have ambitious goals that (probably) depend on leveling up a bunch, then yeah, don’t do that. (unless you intrinsically value the leveling up)
If you sort-of-kind-of have ambitious goals, but you’re not totally bought into them, or have mixed feelings about them, then you probably want to somehow resolve that (which I don’t think is a “deliberate practice” shaped problem, more like a therapy/emotional processing problem, or a “just find a fun project or better work environment that makes things more naturally motivating” problem)