It feels like a long time since the Quantified Self movement caught us in its clutches. The first fitness bands and their corresponding apps sucked us in; the ability to monitor self-defined statistics made us feel more in control of ourselves. It's part narcissism, part hypervigilance.
But the most significant roadblock has been taking all the information we're self-quantifying and acting on it. You know you're taking 1,000 too few steps a day, eating 500 more calories than you should, and getting only a fraction of the outside time you need; actually doing something with the data is the hard part.
Motivation and habit change are hard, and no heart-monitoring bracelet is going to magically solve that problem.
Motivation and habit change are hard, and no heart-monitoring bracelet is going to magically solve that problem.
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