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Right. How much you track and what you track is extremely important. For example, I was massively more motivated to exercise after I started actually tracking m
by SatvikBeri 14y ago
Right. How much you track and what you track is extremely important. For example, I was massively more motivated to exercise after I started actually tracking my performance. I'm a skinny nerd and my goal was to gain muscle mass, and on previous attempts I'd given up in frustration after I didn't gain any weight over several weeks. Rationally I knew the exercise had to be having an effect but it was still demotivating.
But when I started tracking I found that while my overall weight wasn't changing, my percentage of body fat was dropping, indicating that I was in fact gaining muscle. It's not like this was technically new information, but seeing the numbers triggered some sort of response in me which made it very easy to keep going to the gym.
- npsimons 14y agoThis is a prime example of how QS is supposed to work. Many people talk about deliberate practice, but the truth is, you can't practice deliberately unless you are tracking what you want to change. Of course, the other half of deliberate practice is knowing the most effective way to induce change, but much like in programming, how do you know it is working if you aren't tracking/testing it? Temet nosce.