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When Self-Monitoring Becomes Self-Obsession

I check my phone 127 times a day according to this app I downloaded to shame myself into stopping, but knowing the number just makes me check it more to see if the number went down.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to control behavior through measurement creates a new form of the very compulsion being measured.

Worth thinking about

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