Dr. Vishal Patel

But now I need to spend a little bit more time with a coach to figure out how do I introduce some more variety and more balance into my workout routine and maybe change the ergonomics of my desk setup at home so I'm not holding so much tension there.

Then that's human nature. We just avoid them. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's exactly right.

Then that's human nature. We just avoid them. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's exactly right.

Then that's human nature. We just avoid them. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's exactly right.

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Absolutely. I'm like you. So I wore the whoop for a year, took it off, lived without it for without anything for a while, then tried the aura for a while, took that off. Now I've got an Apple watch, but I'm not using it for health tracking. Yeah. Yeah. I just use it. You know, I do look at my heart rate when I'm in the gym to make sure I'm hitting certain zones, but that's about it.

Absolutely. I'm like you. So I wore the whoop for a year, took it off, lived without it for without anything for a while, then tried the aura for a while, took that off. Now I've got an Apple watch, but I'm not using it for health tracking. Yeah. Yeah. I just use it. You know, I do look at my heart rate when I'm in the gym to make sure I'm hitting certain zones, but that's about it.

Absolutely. I'm like you. So I wore the whoop for a year, took it off, lived without it for without anything for a while, then tried the aura for a while, took that off. Now I've got an Apple watch, but I'm not using it for health tracking. Yeah. Yeah. I just use it. You know, I do look at my heart rate when I'm in the gym to make sure I'm hitting certain zones, but that's about it.

I think data and wearables feels like a, what's the word, like training wheels in a way to notice parts of your lifestyle and behavior that you may not have noticed before. But the reason that it becomes, we fixate it, fixate on it when we start wearing it, I think is because of how partly it's a little bit of the, maybe the shock and the awe of

I think data and wearables feels like a, what's the word, like training wheels in a way to notice parts of your lifestyle and behavior that you may not have noticed before. But the reason that it becomes, we fixate it, fixate on it when we start wearing it, I think is because of how partly it's a little bit of the, maybe the shock and the awe of

I think data and wearables feels like a, what's the word, like training wheels in a way to notice parts of your lifestyle and behavior that you may not have noticed before. But the reason that it becomes, we fixate it, fixate on it when we start wearing it, I think is because of how partly it's a little bit of the, maybe the shock and the awe of

Like you don't realize that you're sleeping poorly until you start measuring it. Or you don't realize that maybe you're not pushing yourself as hard in your runs until you start measuring your heart rate and you realize, oh, you have some room to go. That's what it was like for me. But then that initial moment of awareness, it does turn into a fixation.

Like you don't realize that you're sleeping poorly until you start measuring it. Or you don't realize that maybe you're not pushing yourself as hard in your runs until you start measuring your heart rate and you realize, oh, you have some room to go. That's what it was like for me. But then that initial moment of awareness, it does turn into a fixation.

Like you don't realize that you're sleeping poorly until you start measuring it. Or you don't realize that maybe you're not pushing yourself as hard in your runs until you start measuring your heart rate and you realize, oh, you have some room to go. That's what it was like for me. But then that initial moment of awareness, it does turn into a fixation.

And again, from the psychology of wellbeing, we know that external locus of control isn't good for you in the long run. That ultimately needs to be an internal locus of control that you need to, want to go to sleep on time and wake up early because you want to, not because you're feeling guilty of not hitting a certain recovery score or strain score on your device.

And again, from the psychology of wellbeing, we know that external locus of control isn't good for you in the long run. That ultimately needs to be an internal locus of control that you need to, want to go to sleep on time and wake up early because you want to, not because you're feeling guilty of not hitting a certain recovery score or strain score on your device.

And again, from the psychology of wellbeing, we know that external locus of control isn't good for you in the long run. That ultimately needs to be an internal locus of control that you need to, want to go to sleep on time and wake up early because you want to, not because you're feeling guilty of not hitting a certain recovery score or strain score on your device.

But the journey starts with that. It starts with kind of that emotional kind of gamification, like learning about the data, gamifying it for yourself. But what we notice and what the wearable companies have told us is eventually everyone takes it off and everyone switches because each wearable is right for a person at a certain point in their life.