This is optimal. Living daily episode, nine hundred and thirty self reported by com eight of exile, lifestyle, dot com and I'm just a Moloch happy Thursday getting closer the weekend and welcome back, optimal living daily or the O l de podcast. Where I read to you from some of the best blogs, I can find an get permission from mostly covering personal development and minimalism on their show, and thank you too gusto for their support, payroll benefits are hard, especially when your small business, you don't have time to be an expert in things like taxes and regulations and old school pay. Oh providers just aren't built for the way you work today, gusto is making payroll benefits. An age are easy for small business as modern technology does the heavy lifting so easy for you to get a right in all longer have to be a big company to get great technology, great benefits and great service for your team, in fact nine out of ten user.

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he fairly sensitive. He gets a lot of his most vital data from my breathing as detected through the mattress. It impacts that data together each morning sends it away to a process or farm somewhere and It's out its findings to an app on my phone about thirty minutes after have woken up and started my day. The other sensor is built into my fitness tracker, a symbol gizmo that I bought primarily to help me keep tabs on my heart rate while I'm running, but which has also, as a by product, allowed me to discover that my heart rate doesn't get his highs, thought when I perform my normal nightly work routine, but does get quite high when I play guitar does little wrist mounted. Gadget, is a similar data. To tell me how I slept the night before, and that data is also presented. Most cohesion. Please through another app on my phone. What's been particularly fascinating to me, has been the difference in reporting between these two devices. It took a few weeks to determine specifics, but have come to realise that the finnish track

seems to bundle all the time from when I get into bed until I get out of bed in the morning as my sleep period, while the mattress base sensor is more granular waiting until I actually fall asleep, before. I start sorting out whether I'm in a light, deep or are sleep state part of the issue here I usually read for anywhere from fifteen minutes to a few hours, while in bed before actually sleeping the lights out, the light on Kindle turned down low, does one my favor Routines and when I've been enjoying for years all sometimes my phone also turned to a low light nighttime setting to check when I get into bed and when I sat down my book but by comparing these tools. And so this data have been able to derive a more accurate outline of my timing for these portions of my night, when I lay down how long I read when so it time to sleep, and how will you take me? Congo for the night from there

I also know how long it takes me to subway into a deeper sleep if I wake up during the night, when I did they wake up in the morning and how long in total I've slept each night each week and each month all this information unto itself is interesting, especially if you're, into little lifestyle twigs and figure out ways to optimize aspects of your day by experimenting with different ways of doing things. So this informal, it has already been useful to me heart rate money. On your arrest are imperfect by default by combining that data with other data collected in other ways, it becomes more valuable. Such monitors also come with important privacy trade offs, but, I purpose is at least those trade offs are currently worthwhile. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of All this data gathering, though, has slamming my combined nightly sleep results up against my personal perception of how I slept the night before, Each morning, before checking my little data collection apps to see how the machines think I did, I think a moment

to self assess to consciously think ok well How did that go? I found that over there of the month. My estimates have gone better because I've had this more objective. Information available have been able to combine the feeling of being especially well rested or especially, not well rested with it. Quantity of our slept or the deepness or lightness of my sleep noises or internal conflict. Waken me up throughout the night having the objectivity to anchor. My subjectivity, in other words, has helped me increase the quality of my subjective interpretation. One of the major flaws found in the world sociology is that much of the information collected is based on self reported data points. The sociologist ask someone a question and the person on the other end of thy question answers to the best. Durability than ever. And used you as a team larger truth. In some cases, this isn't too much of an issue, but quite often we are terrible at gauging things that I need to self.

Assessment, and that includes things we ve been doing for a very long time, like sleeping like determining when we got to sleep like determining how well we slept last night compared to some other random night the previous month. There are a great many variables. I can warp our perception of such things and unfortunately, we often make decision based on that warped perception. We tell ourselves that everything is fine but in reality were feeling stressed and frantic men unwell had. We better means of comparison. We might realised this, but being stuck in our heads far bodies. The way we are is nearly impossible to extricate our assessment from our subjective experience Maybe things seem either going well because we were less stressed, less frantic less on EL feeling yesterday than a week before, that doesn't mean we can change things around to feel even better, where we will Recognize are more expansive bays lies. Data unto itself can be interesting. You might even find it useful

Jakeem experimental pay, thus need sort of way, but the real utility of collect entrenching this data, my opinion comes from comparing it to our own subjective experience and seeing what emerges from that combination using it to calibrate Our perception of reality of how we experienced the world and remaining skeptical of these results. None of these commercially available sensors are perfect, while also remaining open to the possible that what we ve been construing as reality is in fact only part of the big picture. Using such an approach, we might with a few small adjustments here and there get more out of life than we would have previously thought possible You just listen to the post titled self reported, I calling right of exile, lifestyle, dot com, he's a great writers I talked to narrate and I'll have some of my own story of my own on that, but first don't we

yet you no longer have to be a big company to get great technology, great benefits and great service to take care of the payroll and benefits for your team. And was those offering our electors and exclusive limited time deal we sign up today. We had three months free once you run your first payroll, gotta gusto dot com, slash old, so I use a sleep app to try some of that stuff, but haven't really over into that data, and, I think, is piece of exactly what he said. I didn't add my own feelings to it to actually compare and say: oh yeah, that's why have? My best today, but seeing the data alone is interesting. Sometimes another no I definitely agree with the issue of self reported information. That's where it will see those come in handy, but that idea of combining how you feel with actual data from a third party or from actual facts things out worse. I used to try they did every day, not by the hour, but more by events like a right down. I went to a restaurant and went to the store

hung out with so, and so it was. Your journal, but just a simple tracker. What I was doing and in every day also suffer column, I was set a mood ranking between zero and ten and extreme insurer. I thought my best days would be like a rock day alone are reading a book whatever something like that, but the highs days, Russia, one spent with other people and thus example of taking her own factual data, like what you did that day. There is no disputing that this fact and then mixing it with how you feel, which was my mood score, so you can do that with food logs sleep logs. I call him did anything you want. We just have to be disciplined to do it. Free and then once then, once you have enough data can compare and contrast and then see what works best for you, and make adjustments as necessary solemnly try something like that out or if you already are, let me know get in touch her old podcast, our com, but I ll leave it at that. I hope you having a great day, thank you for being here. Listening to me ever subscribing to the show and I'll be back in a fright,

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