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Achieving a Goal
The philosphy of incrementalism states that the quickest and surest way to change from state A to state B is to adopt small incremental changes to your current state. You can also think of this as "baby steps" to reaching your goal.
Too often the media portrays successful people as extreamly luck and gifted. This is certainly not the case. Anybody at the top will tell you hard work and incremental improvements to oneself were the way they reached their position. It is certainly possible to jump a level by radically trying something new, such as winning the lottery. However these people are the exception, not the rule.
With incremental changes, one always has sight of a baseline, i.e where you are. You only focus on changing one variable of your current state to improve to a new level. The summation of these many incremental changes are what results in steady and measurable progress towards achieving a goal.
Unfortunately people fail to grasp this simple concept. If they have a goal, they try and change too many things at the same time. This will never work as you will have no control over the variables you are simultaneously tryuing to changing. You will not know what the sensitivity of each independent variables is to change and consequently will not be able to progress towards your goal.
Instead you will get frustrated with your lack of results despite putting in the hard effort. Generally one is forced to abandon one's goal. This is typical of weight-losers who unsuccessfully attempt drastic changes to their eating patterns to achieve the goal of losing weight.