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Know Thyself.

Self Actualization By Numbers

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Friday, 7 March 2014


Rachelle DiGregorioFriday, 7 March 2014





BelongingFriendship, Family, Love

PhysiologicalFood, water, sleep, sex, excretion

Securityof Body, Property, Resources

EsteemConfidence, Achievement

SelfActualization

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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SelfActualization


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SelfActualization




“I think that self-awareness is about mirroring yourself, seeing yourself, in whatever it is that you do.

I'm using a Jawbone UP to mirror my activity so I can "see" it. If I meditated more, I'd notice recurring thoughts, etc. This is another modality of the same sort of awareness gathering”

Data = Mirror

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“The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

Nearly every therapeutic prescription involves an invitation to notice, to pay attention.”

Tracking = Attention

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Reporter for iphone

“I want you to be scared by your routine, or by decisions you haven’t thought about because you don’t want to face them”


DATA

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better decisions

enhanced behaviours

TRACK

AWARNESS

ANALYSIS


1. Manual data capture sucks.

2. Single sources of data aren’t that useful.

3. Quantification need qualification.

4. Knowledge alone doesn’t change behaviour.

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Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress

Ambience & Synthesis

Behavioural Prompts

QuantifiedSociety

INSIGHT

ENHANCEMENT

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Essen’s Hierarchy of Quantified Self


Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress


Behavioural Prompts

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Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress


Behavioural Prompts

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Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress


Behavioural Prompts

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Melonmeasuring focus in lifestyle context





Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress


Behavioural Prompts

QuantifiedSociety

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INSIGHT

ENHANCEMENT



The Human API



Lifestyle Context

Goal-Progress


Behavioural Prompts

QuantifiedSociety

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Where people run

Runkeeper data for London


“The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

Nearly every therapeutic prescription involves an invitation to notice, to pay attention.”

Actualization?


“The practical conclusion is that we should turn many of our decisions and diagnoses over to the algorithms. There’s just no controversy any more about whether doing so will give us better results.”

Andrew McAfee, Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT


Sigmund Freud1856 - 1939


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“People are not machines but in every opportunity where they are allowed to behave like machines, they will so behave.”

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 1968


“The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people”

Jaron Lanier, 2009


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Self-tracking must feed our intuition. not replace it.


Behavior leading to self-actualization:

(a) Experiencing life like a child, with full absorption and concentration;

(b) Trying new things instead of sticking to safe paths;

(c) Listening to your own feelings in evaluating experiences instead of the voice of the majority;

(d) Trying to identify your defenses and having the courage to give them up.


“For me, the real value in this whole project hasn’t necessarily come from the data at all, but from the process of getting outdoors, exploring, and then reflecting on my experiences through documentation.”

Quantification : Qualification


The best insights about ourselves will always come from within.

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Thank you
