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When Mood Tracking Turns Emotions Into Data Points

I track my mood in an app every day but rating my feelings on a scale of 1-10 makes me think about emotions like they're problems to solve.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The quantification of inner experience transforms natural emotional flux into metrics requiring optimization.

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