Various studies (that I don’t have to hand and couldn’t find in a hurry) show that the mere act of taking notice of everything you eat—notebook, phone camera or whatever—will help you lose weight.
In my experience this pattern—if I take notice of every time I do X, it’s easier for me to deliberately influence how often I do X—generalizes pretty well to all Xes I’m physically capable of influencing.
This shouldn’t be surprising. It’s easier to deliberately influence things I’m aware of than things I’m not.
Various studies (that I don’t have to hand and couldn’t find in a hurry) show that the mere act of taking notice of everything you eat—notebook, phone camera or whatever—will help you lose weight.
In my experience this pattern—if I take notice of every time I do X, it’s easier for me to deliberately influence how often I do X—generalizes pretty well to all Xes I’m physically capable of influencing.
This shouldn’t be surprising. It’s easier to deliberately influence things I’m aware of than things I’m not.