Enthusiasts of quantifying maintain that paying attention to individual health data is how they achieve a state of nirvana. And these metrics can be powerful tools. For example, if someone has a chronic condition such as migraines, they can track their sleep cycles to learn that they can avoid a headache when they have, say, nine and a half hours of sleep versus their usual seven.
That’s the best-case scenario. Mine was not that. I became obsessed with quantifying myself.
Read more:
Craven, J. (2022, May 11). How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself. FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-my-fitness-tracker-turned-me-against-myself/