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Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification (edit)
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Tools to save your life can also record data. For examples; Apple watch monitors for arrhythmia, medicine trackers for the goal of safety can also help monitor health conditions, and hiking is made much safer with GPS.
Tools to save your life can also record data. For examples; Apple watch monitors for arrhythmia, medicine trackers for the goal of safety can also help monitor health conditions, and hiking is made much safer with GPS.
==== Motivate behavior change ====
==== Motivate and change your behavior ====
Gamification seems pretty popular and it requires tracking. Most consumer wearables include lots of motivating information. Just watching the numbers improve or be recorded can be quite motivating and build healthy habits; according to personal experience [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) and Atomic Habits book. Health tracking can determine the best behavior change technique for each individual. Problems usually have easier solutions than just relying on willpower such as a way to make a necessary habit much more fun or that underneath the problem is a health issue.
When user has successfully figured out what needs to change, the next hurdle becomes motivation. This is the primary interest of the Habits and self improvement community. Do not dismiss this as a lack of willpower because its still brain chemistry and easily manipulable by outside factors. Examples include; a way to make a necessary habit much more fun, that just a bit too much friction can shut down productivity, or finding that the underlying cause of a problem of motivation is actually a health issue.
Most smart watches, the most popular wearable, include lots of motivating information. [[Gamification]], the idea of dressing up real world as a game, seems popular and it requires tracking. The self tracker has access to many other behavior change techniques, including; cool new tech, cool art, competition, empowering healthful communities, financial punishment, and guilt. Just watching the numbers improve or even be recorded can be motivating and build healthy habits; according to personal experience DG (talk) and Atomic Habits book. Health tracking could even determine the best behavior change technique for each individual.
The negative effects of self tracking on motivation is mentioned in section arguments against tracking.
==== Contribute your data to medical research. ====
==== Contribute your data to medical research. ====