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by maeil 560 days ago
> Was your status “Productive” most of the week? Awesome, you know you are improving. What is the next workout? Done.

Right, but to us monkey-brained seeing a boolean "productive" isn't a great motivator, we need to see a number that can go up, making it much more addictive. That's why I was so convinced by the Apple Watch user giving that one number that they look at - that will definitely work for me as it's super effective on the reward-related parts of my brain. A boolean, or having a hundred numbers - not as much. If you're someone who doesn't need that, I'm sure the training readiness is much more actually useful for improving, but we're not necessarily looking for that - our hope is to one day get to a point where we may start looking for that :)

I've noticed it myself even when doing projects. So much easier to stay motivated when you have this one number, e.g. page views or active users that updates every day (not "enterprise contracts" which may change once every month), to focus on, purely for monkey-brain reasons.