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
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