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When self-monitoring replaces self-awareness

I track my sleep and steps and mood and feel like a science experiment but no more connected to my actual body than before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Data collection substitutes for embodied presence, creating distance from the very experience you seek to understand.

Ideas that help explain it
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