It may also be interesting to consider this in the context of learning physical skills. When you're learning something new, there are a lot of things that you are doing wrong. A not-so-good coach will see them and start telling you things that you need to change. But you can't remember all these things. A good coach will find one key thing which you can keep in mind to work on.

The Inner Game of Tennis frames this as a difference between the two selves. Maybe that could be considered through the lens of decreasing the number of things you need to remember in order to improve.