<story><title>The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/gender-marriage-spreadsheet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mettamage</author><text>When I used to do conscious self improvement, I journaled. I simply answered the prompt: what did I do to achieve my goal today, and what can I do better?&lt;p&gt;This had the same effect as their quantitative approach: you start to see patterns.&lt;p&gt;I’d suggest: the profound enabler of change isn’t the quantitative aspect of it, it is that you’re logging data in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Our brains can’t log that much. Notepads and spreadsheets can.&lt;p&gt;Of course, quantitative va qualitative have some trade offs, but the low hanging fruit is data logging, not Excel.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/gender-marriage-spreadsheet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badpun</author><text>&amp;gt; Our spreadsheets hammered home that what contributed most to our happiness was time spent together or with friends — while, crucially, not working — and there was no way to get more of that if we continued to live in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive parts of the country. So I proposed an idea that would have seemed radical were there not so much data backing it: “I think you should quit your job, we should sell our house, and we should move somewhere cheaper,” I told my husband matter-of-factly one day. So we did.&lt;p&gt;Will be kind of hard to meet with friends, as they have all stayed in the Bay Area?</text></comment>