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How Fitness Tracking Can Kill the Joy of Movement

I use my fitness tracker religiously but I've stopped enjoying walks because I'm always thinking about steps and heart rate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Quantifying embodied experience can shift focus from intrinsic pleasure to external metrics of optimization.

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