The other extreme are traders that constantly jump from timeframe to timeframe without much of a plan. Those traders are mostly driven by emotions and trade very impulsively.
A better approach is the top-down multi timframe analysis where you start on the higher timeframe, look for the bigger picture perspective and then slowly build your trading plan by going lower.
But many times you can tell the overall direction of the market by looking at a slower time frame, this means that you will most likely make less trades that go against the overall trend and more that go with the trend and this can only benefit you as you loss less often while you win more regularly.