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When wellness technology creates anxiety about the behaviors it's meant to encourage

My smartwatch keeps buzzing me to stand and breathe and move and I want to throw it in a drawer but I'm scared I'll become even lazier.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External monitoring cannot create internal wisdom, only dependence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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