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JA Westenberg

@Daojoan@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

The problem isn’t the metric itself, it’s whether you’ve internalized the metric as part of your identity.

If you think of yourself as “someone who writes 500 words per day,” missing a day becomes an identity crisis…

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/is-it-a-metric-or-an-obsession/

Westenberg.

Is It a Metric or an Obsession?

I’ve been thinking about why some people can track their progress on goals without going insane, while others turn into the guy who weighs himself four times a day and has a panic attack when his Fitbit dies… You’d think there’d be some obvious personality difference: anxious

Federation Bot

@Federation_Bot · 5 months ago

@DaojoanIf every drop of rain was your smile, I would like it to rain heavily, so that there is no room for unhappiness in your life. Many people will come into your life, but only a true friend will leave their footprints. I will love to know you more. Hope you don’t mind.