My first thought was “it would be cool to add to journal entries some little number when I am worried about X thing”, and then I could see that number potentially change by day or be able to measure how something felt in hindsight months later
Then I wondered if that number itself, that weight, somehow needed grounding, but now I’m wondering if it actually doesn’t: does the immediate act of both intuiting a number and learning not to stress about the precision of that, actually provide a benefit itself? Feature vs bug
I wonder if someone has studied journaling with a mechanism for this, and it feels like surely there has been a study. But I don’t know if enough for a meta study. I’ll peruse
I had a similar thought. This could be especially useful to feel better about seeing the past resolved problems. Would be curious if you find something related.
I’m not sure about the weight, but I imagined something like percentages which do not have to sum to 100% (if intuitively there’s still a bunch of capacity left.)
My first thought was “it would be cool to add to journal entries some little number when I am worried about X thing”, and then I could see that number potentially change by day or be able to measure how something felt in hindsight months later
Then I wondered if that number itself, that weight, somehow needed grounding, but now I’m wondering if it actually doesn’t: does the immediate act of both intuiting a number and learning not to stress about the precision of that, actually provide a benefit itself? Feature vs bug
I wonder if someone has studied journaling with a mechanism for this, and it feels like surely there has been a study. But I don’t know if enough for a meta study. I’ll peruse
I had a similar thought. This could be especially useful to feel better about seeing the past resolved problems. Would be curious if you find something related.
I’m not sure about the weight, but I imagined something like percentages which do not have to sum to 100% (if intuitively there’s still a bunch of capacity left.)