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Sounds like a refreshingly simple method. Why did you stop?
I've been a diarist before logging my mood. I stopped because it was homework. Yet it was worth doing.
I have a secret startup plan - MOOPs Massive Open Online Psychology. You wire your house with iPhones or Alexas recording your daily conversations with your family - it records things like "number of positive responses" vs "number negative responses" when replying to your spouse or children. There are dozens of simple verbal checks one can pull out of even fairly raw speech to text, let alone visual dances. And imagi…
This sounds like a dystopian nightmare come true
I have a secret startup plan - MOOPs Massive Open Online Psychology. You wire your house with iPhones or Alexas recording your daily conversations with your family - it records things like "number of positive responses" vs "number negative responses" when replying to your spouse or children. There are dozens of simple verbal checks one can pull out of even fairly raw speech to text, let alone visual dances. And imagi…
Slight tangent: somehow I cannot find it, but there is an amazing TedX video where a Google engineer tracked how his child learned words by effectively doing this and recording and tracking everyone’s voices and paths in the home. The amount of data he stored and crunched was impressive. You may want to hit him up for his tech setup :)
Anyone have suggestions for software or other tools? The article explained motivations but was pretty light on the methods. To stretch the analogy above, is there a MyFitnessPal for this or do people's aims vary enough the everyone just rolls their own spreadsheets?
When I used to do conscious self improvement, I journaled. I simply answered the prompt: what did I do to achieve my goal today, and what can I do better? This had the same effect as their quantitative approach: you start to see patterns. I’d suggest: the profound enabler of change isn’t the quantitative aspect of it, it is that you’re logging data in the first place. Our brains can’t log that much. Notepads and spre…
so... I'm with this, but... I know the results my logs would be. I want to work out and be in great shape. Run, stretch, weights, yada yada. I can log all day. It won't change the fact that I'm lazy/just don't have the work ethic to actually do it.
Often it's the nebulous goals ("be in great shape") that are hardest to work on, simply because tjey're vague.
Run a 5-minute mile. Or a 2-hour marathon. Climb Whitney. Ride a century. Deadlift 500#. 32" waistline.
Those are specific goals. The list isn'tan encompassing one -- pick one of those, or a congruent set. Bodybuilding or powerlifting and endurance sports tend not to be highly compatible, though strength training, as an adjunct to a primary goal, can help almost any activity. Another key is to pick goals appropriate to your morphology and abilities: smaller, thinner, long-limbed people make better distance runners, larger are better at power/strength sports, including sprint events. High coordination makes skill sports possible, competitive spirit and youth; lacrosse or ice hockey.
Logging can help you discover your interests, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as progress toward goals.
But showing up at the gym with "get into shape" is pretty vague. If you're starting at a tyical baseline, almost any introductory fitness programme incorporating strength and cardio will benefit.
Group, team, or club activities are another option.
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Group fitness classes at some gyms have a stable cohort that you’ll bond with over time.
We need a different word than "friends" for such bonds though... Someone who does not know your birthday is not a friend.
You and I have very different ideas of what is important in life and friendship.
Something about this article felt disjointed. I read back over the jarring part to see if I had somehow skipped over a section or read it in the wrong order.
> Because the really intractable problems — like the social expectations placed on mothers, the gendered division of labor in homes, the invisibility of all sorts of care work — are not going to magically disappear.
All three problems she mentions are on her "side." As the reader you are left wondering…
But still a worth read, her overall point is IMHO solid.
I have a secret startup plan - MOOPs Massive Open Online Psychology. You wire your house with iPhones or Alexas recording your daily conversations with your family - it records things like "number of positive responses" vs "number negative responses" when replying to your spouse or children. There are dozens of simple verbal checks one can pull out of even fairly raw speech to text, let alone visual dances. And imagi…
Slight tangent: somehow I cannot find it, but there is an amazing TedX video where a Google engineer tracked how his child learned words by effectively doing this and recording and tracking everyone’s voices and paths in the home. The amount of data he stored and crunched was impressive. You may want to hit him up for his tech setup :)