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Why Gamified Fitness Can Make Exercise Meaningless

My fitness tracker congratulates me for meeting my step goal but I walked in circles around my house to hit the number and felt completely ridiculous.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Numerical achievement systems can transform natural movement into arbitrary performance, disconnecting action from purpose.

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