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Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification (edit)
Revision as of 22:57, 11 January 2024
, 11 January→Motivate and change your behavior
Tracking is itself motivating. Most smart watches, the most popular wearable, produce lots of motivating information and nudges. Share accomplishments with friends to get external motivation. [[Gamification]], the idea of dressing up real world as a game to make real world things more fun, seems popular and it requires some 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 [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) and Atomic Habits book. Feeling in control, and mastering yourself and skills, can be strong intrinsic motivation.
Tracking is itself motivating. Most smart watches, the most popular wearable, produce lots of motivating information and nudges. Share accomplishments with friends to get external motivation. [[Gamification]], the idea of dressing up real world as a game to make real world things more fun, seems popular and it requires some 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 [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) and Atomic Habits book. Feeling in control, and mastering yourself and skills, can be strong intrinsic motivation.
Feeling good is not enough. Improvement should include hard data.
Unfortunately, when things are not going well, people will become demotivated and even hide the event from their history. The negative effects of self tracking on motivation is mentioned in section arguments against tracking.
Unfortunately, when things are not going well, people will become demotivated and even hide the event from their history. The negative effects of self tracking on motivation is mentioned in section arguments against tracking.