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> Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc.

Doesn't your body already have built in sensors to provide this information?

It does, but we’re increasingly so busy, distracted, and “up in our heads” all day that the time and energy required for that kind of mindfulness becomes unaffordable to many people “having to function” day-to-day. The way we structure modern society and work life is antithetical to both mental and physical health (“sitting is the new smoking”).

They say “what gets measured gets managed”, and if your internal biological sensors don’t get used enough because your attention is busy processing other, seemingly more urgent, instructions all day, the watch can help take on some of those tasks and theow in an interrupt to “take a break, go move” every once in a while.

So you would think, but with apple watch I’ve realized that some days I feel like I’ve walked a lot, it’s actually much less than i had thought.

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