Since weight loss was included in life plan, Li Xuan would bring an electronic scale every time he ate, and calculate the calories of food to the exact g.
In order to get out of the shadow of failed love, Jojo designed a set of emotional quantification systems to help her discover the real needs in her relationships. L, who just worked, participated in the 100-day reading self-discipline camp. Today she finished reading "Becoming a Terrible Self-disciplined Person" and marked on Douban: This is the 23rd book I have read this year, and it is still 7 books away from the goal...
More and more young people are beginning to digitize their lives and named this new method "quantitative life".
In fact, this concept first appeared in 2007, and was proposed by editors from Wired magazine Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly , and gave a definition: a technological revolution (in) personal daily life (by using parameters such as input, status and performance (by) the introduction of science and technology into daily life.
Douban "Quantitative Life" group now has more than 22,000 users. Many friends record their "quantitative life": review of the teaching qualification examination, running 8km a day, reading 35 minutes a day, checking in at candy, daily accounting...
Quantitative life goals and precise time management make life have a sense of purpose and control, but it also brings philosophical discussion: Can human life be completely quantified?
01 Quantitative life: health monitoring, accurate work and rest
In a TED speech with the theme of "Data-based Self", Gary Wolf introduced his previous day with a series of numbers: get up at 6:10, sleep at 0:45, wake up once at night, heart rate 61 beats per minute, blood pressure 127/74, exercise for 0 minutes, intake of 600 mg of caffeine, 0 mg of alcohol... Diet and fitness need to calculate calories, fatness and thinness are measured by the BMI index, and sleep quality is scored by the algorithm.
"Quantitized life" core lies in digitizing life and expressing the goals in digital form to further strengthen self-cognition. With the popularity of wearable health monitoring devices, more and more young Chinese people use tools to transform their behavior into accurate data and practice healthy quantitative management.
"The first thing I do when I wake up now is to turn on the bracelet to see the sleep time." Ms. Li said that she sleeps with a bracelet that monitors sleep every night, but the quantification of these values will affect her movements and mood when falling asleep, the duration of deep sleep, the sleep cycle, the heart rate, the blood oxygen , will affect her movements and mood.
"I'll feel good when I fell asleep early the day before, and I feel energetic all day; if I see that I fell asleep at 1:00 in the evening and only 6 hours, I feel that I haven't had enough sleep and regretted why I went to bed so late." Now, Xiao Li is more and more concerned about sleep scores, "It's purely to understand myself."
Sleep and exercise are detected and presented in data
3 Years ago, after Bai He had a smart sports watch, he began to detect his sports performance more accurately. Once, Baihe forgot to turn on his sports watch while riding outdoors. Without feedback from data, she suddenly felt that she was "riding in vain".
smart watch has a "ring reminder": set a sports plan for yourself, and the watch will calculate whether the standard meets the standard every day. After the standard is met, the watch will display a perfect combination. To ensure the ring-sharing, Baihe would walk around the house with a watch before going to bed every day.
Since taking weight loss as the goal, Li Xuan has begun "food practice" of 1,500 kcal per day. This plan comes from his accurate weight management plan: Li Xuan calculates his BMI value (body weight index, BMI = weight (kg) ÷ square of height (m²)) "At my height of 177cm, my BMI is always on the edge of passing the criteria. If you eat more at night, your BMI will exceed 24."
In order to carry out weight Management, Li Xuan signed up for the Grade A hospital scientific weight loss knowledge sharing class. "The doctor systematically explained the underlying logic of weight loss - calorie gap, that is, calorie intake is less than calorie consumption."
The next day, he calculated the calorie consumption and exercise consumption of eating food a day. "According to the energy gap theory, I should reduce my calorie intake by 500 kcal per day, and maintain 1,500 kcal per day to reduce my weight slowly and steadily.
Since weight loss was included in life plan, Li Xuan would bring an electronic scale every time he ate, and calculate the calories of food to the exact g.
In order to get out of the shadow of failed love, Jojo designed a set of emotional quantification systems to help her discover the real needs in her relationships. L, who just worked, participated in the 100-day reading self-discipline camp. Today she finished reading "Becoming a Terrible Self-disciplined Person" and marked on Douban: This is the 23rd book I have read this year, and it is still 7 books away from the goal...
More and more young people are beginning to digitize their lives and named this new method "quantitative life".
In fact, this concept first appeared in 2007, and was proposed by editors from Wired magazine Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly , and gave a definition: a technological revolution (in) personal daily life (by using parameters such as input, status and performance (by) the introduction of science and technology into daily life.
Douban "Quantitative Life" group now has more than 22,000 users. Many friends record their "quantitative life": review of the teaching qualification examination, running 8km a day, reading 35 minutes a day, checking in at candy, daily accounting...
Quantitative life goals and precise time management make life have a sense of purpose and control, but it also brings philosophical discussion: Can human life be completely quantified?
01 Quantitative life: health monitoring, accurate work and rest
In a TED speech with the theme of "Data-based Self", Gary Wolf introduced his previous day with a series of numbers: get up at 6:10, sleep at 0:45, wake up once at night, heart rate 61 beats per minute, blood pressure 127/74, exercise for 0 minutes, intake of 600 mg of caffeine, 0 mg of alcohol... Diet and fitness need to calculate calories, fatness and thinness are measured by the BMI index, and sleep quality is scored by the algorithm.
"Quantitized life" core lies in digitizing life and expressing the goals in digital form to further strengthen self-cognition. With the popularity of wearable health monitoring devices, more and more young Chinese people use tools to transform their behavior into accurate data and practice healthy quantitative management.
"The first thing I do when I wake up now is to turn on the bracelet to see the sleep time." Ms. Li said that she sleeps with a bracelet that monitors sleep every night, but the quantification of these values will affect her movements and mood when falling asleep, the duration of deep sleep, the sleep cycle, the heart rate, the blood oxygen , will affect her movements and mood.
"I'll feel good when I fell asleep early the day before, and I feel energetic all day; if I see that I fell asleep at 1:00 in the evening and only 6 hours, I feel that I haven't had enough sleep and regretted why I went to bed so late." Now, Xiao Li is more and more concerned about sleep scores, "It's purely to understand myself."
Sleep and exercise are detected and presented in data
3 Years ago, after Bai He had a smart sports watch, he began to detect his sports performance more accurately. Once, Baihe forgot to turn on his sports watch while riding outdoors. Without feedback from data, she suddenly felt that she was "riding in vain".
smart watch has a "ring reminder": set a sports plan for yourself, and the watch will calculate whether the standard meets the standard every day. After the standard is met, the watch will display a perfect combination. To ensure the ring-sharing, Baihe would walk around the house with a watch before going to bed every day.
Since taking weight loss as the goal, Li Xuan has begun "food practice" of 1,500 kcal per day. This plan comes from his accurate weight management plan: Li Xuan calculates his BMI value (body weight index, BMI = weight (kg) ÷ square of height (m²)) "At my height of 177cm, my BMI is always on the edge of passing the criteria. If you eat more at night, your BMI will exceed 24."
In order to carry out weight Management, Li Xuan signed up for the Grade A hospital scientific weight loss knowledge sharing class. "The doctor systematically explained the underlying logic of weight loss - calorie gap, that is, calorie intake is less than calorie consumption."
The next day, he calculated the calorie consumption and exercise consumption of eating food a day. "According to the energy gap theory, I should reduce my calorie intake by 500 kcal per day, and maintain 1,500 kcal per day to reduce my weight slowly and steadily."In the next 100 days, he began a "calorie practice" of 1,500 kcal per day, and began to bring food on a scale for every meal, accurately measure his calorie intake for each meal, record it on the health monitoring app, and plan the distribution of 1,500 kcal in three meals.
Li Xuan's "care practice" record (partial screenshot)
In order to accurately calculate his calorie intake, Li Xuan brought food scales to eat every day, which became a canteen scene: after serving all the meals on the dining plate, he first weighed the total weight, and then weighed them one by one, and recorded the corresponding calories of the food: chicken legs, rice and other meals that are easier to measure separately. For those soups that are difficult to weigh, he weighed the leftovers and empty plates after eating them all, "In this way, the total weight measured just now is the weight of the meal. Estimate the portions, and then recorded them in the APP to calculate the calories. "
In three months, he basically did not leave the scale and finally lost 5 kilograms of weight. "Because only on the basis of precision can you have control over the overall weight loss process and get corresponding positive feedback. "Li Xuan said.
02 Quantitative time: Avoid consumption and stay away from anxiety
Time is the most common quantitative scale in daily life, but it is also the most easily overlooked.
9 years ago, Pan Yukuan, who just graduated from a master's degree from a well-known university, always felt that he was in anxiety because of the lack of scientific self-discipline plan for quantifying time: "I can't find something worth doing. Every day, except to go to and from get off work, I don't know what to do with my time. "
Later, he began to systematically study domestic and foreign time management works, continuously practice, optimize and improve, and systematically record daily time overhead, optimize his time management after get off work, try various methods to improve the efficiency of time use, quantify his time and life goals.
Now, he can accurately allocate 80 hours of work every week: each allocate 40 hours to his job and side job. His side job is a time management training coach, writing articles on the official account, doing live broadcasts, and opening self-discipline camps to help more people manage their time and life direction. After careful time management, Yukuan has output 420,000 words of time management, and nearly 2,000 videos.
"For procrastination, many students want to know how to use time efficiently. "Pan Yukuan said that after quantifying life, physical or financial concepts such as efficiency and effectiveness often appear in daily life. He said that he often talked about a sentence, "If we regard 86,400 seconds of daily life as an asset, we should pursue persistent happiness and happiness, rather than three-minute timely enjoyment like browsing videos and social networking sites. "How to do it in
, he gave the students a key guiding ideology: first set big goals in life, and then disassemble them into daily life every day. He suggested that the difficulty at the beginning should be minimized and practiced from 15 minutes a day.
Pan Yukuan believes that the plan should serve the results, "Result orientation is very important - your goals can be family life, personal improvement, business, interest cultivation, find a direction that best suits you, and maximizes your interests. "
He opened a self-discipline camp for students who are interested in time management. In essence, what he wants to do is not simply supervise others to check in or make quantitative plans, but to help everyone clarify their life goals. "Time management varies from person to person. Don't quantify for the sake of quantification, but plan according to the granularity of your goals. "
Pan Yukuan has seen a student who only slept for 4 hours a day, and accurately adjusted his daily schedule to every hour without any breathing time. After reviewing the content of thousands of words at 12 o'clock in the evening, he felt even more tired. "Getting up early and getting up early is certainly the beginning of a good transformation, but self-discipline is not only about going to bed early and getting up early. You should think more about how to maximize the utilization rate of time, so as to maximize the value of life. ”
03 Quantitative emotions: Get out of the low and refuse to fall in love brain
Jojo’s last love was very tired. She didn’t understand why falling in love with someone she liked so much at the time made me exhausted.
In order to figure out this problem, Jojo designed a set of emotional quantification system.
Jojo’s job is user experience design. “My work habit is to analyze user needs first, so I tried to summarize my own needs.” After
Jojo rationally analyzed his emotional experience, he compiled a emotional scoring model. In this percentage model, subjective liking and rational personal needs each account for 50 points. Personal needs are also divided into two levels, with emotional needs, physiological needs and material needs accounting for 30 points, 10 points and 10 points respectively; among emotional needs, daily companionship is 8 points, the sense of security given by the partner is 10 points, and the confidence of both parties in this relationship accounts for 12 points.
Jojo-designed emotional quantification system
If you can face your needs directly, many grievances in your relationship may have specific answers.
Jojo and his ex-boyfriend were still together, and they would often go out to drink with their friends. Jojo often had to wait until two or three o'clock in the night to have 5 minutes of call time. The other party hurriedly said good night and went to bed. "There are many similar examples."
Jojo once scored his ex-boyfriend: 4 points of company, 5 points of security, and 3 points of confidence. Physiological needs are 5 points, and substances are 5 points. Although there are 45 points, the overall total is only 67 points.
"The person who should leave is the same as the subject that should be taken, and I can't keep it. After a while, I scored again and failed. In the end, I made up my mind to break up." Jojo said.
When the demand is shown in a quantitative form, she reexamined her emotions: "The love that has been maintained by heartbeat before, her needs are not met." Jojo said that emotional needs include companionship and a sense of security, which are not met in this relationship; because physical needs such as hugs cannot be met either in another place. To sum up, if you like it, you can’t get feedback or your needs are not met, so even if you like it, it’s just internal friction and it’s very tiring. “So in the end I said I broke up.”
, a way to quantify emotions for the person you are tempted, may make love decisions more rational. But can feelings really be quantified? Jojo further explained: "After all, the meaning of quantifying emotions is to make the parties more clear about what they want, not just ignore them if they are moved - because heartbeat and love are two different things. After the needs are clear, it will help save energy and time."
Don't think that rational quantification of feelings and needs is exclusive to girls, and some boys are also instinctively quantifying emotions.
"I have a friend who finally chose to marry a girl he doesn't like because that girl can provide him with emotional and physical value. He can clearly point out the goodness of his partner: she can always tolerate him, understand him, cook for him, and have children." Jojo feels that in emotions, boys are more rational and better at quantification.
04 Reflection: Can all life be given to quantification?
To achieve a comprehensive quantitative life, it needs to be tracked. Some netizens have posted their quantitative life lessons: they have been using timetrack on iOS to make relatively rough learning time records; then use the five-color mark of the full-day timeline through Goodnotes electronic manual; it takes about 30 minutes to review before going to bed every day, and simply do monthly reviews every month. The netizen said: "Although it's a bit cumbersome, after a while, I look back and think I can recall what I was doing that day."
Of course, some people have raised questions, does target-oriented and fine management make young people feel more secure or will they be trapped by reason?
"I think it is a good thing for young people to choose to quantify their lives in general. This means that young people have their own general life goals and directions of hard work, and are willing to find ways to think and act to achieve goals. This is much better than having no goals or blindly working hard." Netizen @小典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典
This is her experience in winning battles.In her opinion, self-discipline is a life attitude. "Self-discipline shows that I want to control my life by restraining desires and acting hard. Quantification is the tool I chose to use to achieve this goal, which helps me control my life more efficiently and scientifically." Netizen @天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天
However, Mao Xinxin, who had studied for a doctorate in philosophy, has his own view on quantitative life. "In fact, quantification is a means closer to tools. Now people use standards closer to statistics and constantly use more precise methods to find their own life path."
In her opinion, having goals is very necessary, but the quantitative method is only one of the ways to achieve goals. "The key is to look at the goal served by quantification, whether a person really wants. Quantification itself is not the goal."
"To a certain extent, quantification is the entanglement of the elite rational thinking on ordinary people. Most people are easily controlled by tools when using tools." In Mao Xinxin's view, excessive precision and rationality can also cause another consequence - the dullness of individual feelings.
Mao Xinxin feels that a person can know many things by relying on the feeling of relying on it, such as, did he sleep well yesterday? Can you live your own life well? But now, people rely too much on using external standard data to quantify themselves, rely on the so-called rationalization and dataization, and gradually "give up" the feeling of relying on themselves. This will cause the data-based life to give people the illusion that they can control themselves, and make people lose their instinct.
Quantification undoubtedly makes life efficient and accurate, but at the level of life and philosophy, quantifying the precision of life also poses challenges to traditional lifestyles. The traditional Chinese lifestyle of people-oriented and life-oriented, "looking at the scenery of mountains from afar, looking at human feelings from a close distance, and looking at yourself from a middle distance" is obviously difficult to quantify. So, in a world dominated by science and reason, should human daily life, spiritual life, soul life and pursuit of value also be left to scientific rationality to quantify?
"Faced with the comprehensive dataization of people, we also need to reflect on philosophically again, what is the essence of people." Professor of the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China Peng Lan mentioned in the article ""Data-based survival": Quantified and externalized people and life" that although human dataization can bring efficient and accurate services and management to a certain extent, it also means that many times people are no longer regarded as life with unique experiences and rich situations, but are objects that are simply and crudely quantified, or numbers that are not differentiated. "People-oriented" may gradually turn to "number-oriented"... The continuous enrichment of data dimensions related to people does not mean that the data reflects people in a complete way, nor does it mean that everything about people can be shaped by data. There are still some essential attributes of people that cannot be turned into data, or should not be data.
pictures are provided by the respondents and screenshots of the Internet (parts are stills from the movie "Time Planning Bureau")
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi
coordinated/Lin Yan Zhang Bin
Jojo’s job is user experience design. “My work habit is to analyze user needs first, so I tried to summarize my own needs.” After
Jojo rationally analyzed his emotional experience, he compiled a emotional scoring model. In this percentage model, subjective liking and rational personal needs each account for 50 points. Personal needs are also divided into two levels, with emotional needs, physiological needs and material needs accounting for 30 points, 10 points and 10 points respectively; among emotional needs, daily companionship is 8 points, the sense of security given by the partner is 10 points, and the confidence of both parties in this relationship accounts for 12 points.
Jojo-designed emotional quantification system
If you can face your needs directly, many grievances in your relationship may have specific answers.
Jojo and his ex-boyfriend were still together, and they would often go out to drink with their friends. Jojo often had to wait until two or three o'clock in the night to have 5 minutes of call time. The other party hurriedly said good night and went to bed. "There are many similar examples."
Jojo once scored his ex-boyfriend: 4 points of company, 5 points of security, and 3 points of confidence. Physiological needs are 5 points, and substances are 5 points. Although there are 45 points, the overall total is only 67 points.
"The person who should leave is the same as the subject that should be taken, and I can't keep it. After a while, I scored again and failed. In the end, I made up my mind to break up." Jojo said.
When the demand is shown in a quantitative form, she reexamined her emotions: "The love that has been maintained by heartbeat before, her needs are not met." Jojo said that emotional needs include companionship and a sense of security, which are not met in this relationship; because physical needs such as hugs cannot be met either in another place. To sum up, if you like it, you can’t get feedback or your needs are not met, so even if you like it, it’s just internal friction and it’s very tiring. “So in the end I said I broke up.”
, a way to quantify emotions for the person you are tempted, may make love decisions more rational. But can feelings really be quantified? Jojo further explained: "After all, the meaning of quantifying emotions is to make the parties more clear about what they want, not just ignore them if they are moved - because heartbeat and love are two different things. After the needs are clear, it will help save energy and time."
Don't think that rational quantification of feelings and needs is exclusive to girls, and some boys are also instinctively quantifying emotions.
"I have a friend who finally chose to marry a girl he doesn't like because that girl can provide him with emotional and physical value. He can clearly point out the goodness of his partner: she can always tolerate him, understand him, cook for him, and have children." Jojo feels that in emotions, boys are more rational and better at quantification.
04 Reflection: Can all life be given to quantification?
To achieve a comprehensive quantitative life, it needs to be tracked. Some netizens have posted their quantitative life lessons: they have been using timetrack on iOS to make relatively rough learning time records; then use the five-color mark of the full-day timeline through Goodnotes electronic manual; it takes about 30 minutes to review before going to bed every day, and simply do monthly reviews every month. The netizen said: "Although it's a bit cumbersome, after a while, I look back and think I can recall what I was doing that day."
Of course, some people have raised questions, does target-oriented and fine management make young people feel more secure or will they be trapped by reason?
"I think it is a good thing for young people to choose to quantify their lives in general. This means that young people have their own general life goals and directions of hard work, and are willing to find ways to think and act to achieve goals. This is much better than having no goals or blindly working hard." Netizen @小典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典典
This is her experience in winning battles.In her opinion, self-discipline is a life attitude. "Self-discipline shows that I want to control my life by restraining desires and acting hard. Quantification is the tool I chose to use to achieve this goal, which helps me control my life more efficiently and scientifically." Netizen @天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天天
However, Mao Xinxin, who had studied for a doctorate in philosophy, has his own view on quantitative life. "In fact, quantification is a means closer to tools. Now people use standards closer to statistics and constantly use more precise methods to find their own life path."
In her opinion, having goals is very necessary, but the quantitative method is only one of the ways to achieve goals. "The key is to look at the goal served by quantification, whether a person really wants. Quantification itself is not the goal."
"To a certain extent, quantification is the entanglement of the elite rational thinking on ordinary people. Most people are easily controlled by tools when using tools." In Mao Xinxin's view, excessive precision and rationality can also cause another consequence - the dullness of individual feelings.
Mao Xinxin feels that a person can know many things by relying on the feeling of relying on it, such as, did he sleep well yesterday? Can you live your own life well? But now, people rely too much on using external standard data to quantify themselves, rely on the so-called rationalization and dataization, and gradually "give up" the feeling of relying on themselves. This will cause the data-based life to give people the illusion that they can control themselves, and make people lose their instinct.
Quantification undoubtedly makes life efficient and accurate, but at the level of life and philosophy, quantifying the precision of life also poses challenges to traditional lifestyles. The traditional Chinese lifestyle of people-oriented and life-oriented, "looking at the scenery of mountains from afar, looking at human feelings from a close distance, and looking at yourself from a middle distance" is obviously difficult to quantify. So, in a world dominated by science and reason, should human daily life, spiritual life, soul life and pursuit of value also be left to scientific rationality to quantify?
"Faced with the comprehensive dataization of people, we also need to reflect on philosophically again, what is the essence of people." Professor of the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China Peng Lan mentioned in the article ""Data-based survival": Quantified and externalized people and life" that although human dataization can bring efficient and accurate services and management to a certain extent, it also means that many times people are no longer regarded as life with unique experiences and rich situations, but are objects that are simply and crudely quantified, or numbers that are not differentiated. "People-oriented" may gradually turn to "number-oriented"... The continuous enrichment of data dimensions related to people does not mean that the data reflects people in a complete way, nor does it mean that everything about people can be shaped by data. There are still some essential attributes of people that cannot be turned into data, or should not be data.
pictures are provided by the respondents and screenshots of the Internet (parts are stills from the movie "Time Planning Bureau")
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi
coordinated/Lin Yan Zhang Bin
