Adler’s idea that we can ­ and should ­ defend 
ourselves against the imposed generalities of 
official knowledge is typical of pioneering 
self-trackers, and it shows how closely the dream 
of a quantified self resembles therapeutic ideas 
of self-actualization, even as its methods are 
startlingly different. Trackers focused on their 
health want to ensure that their medical 
practitioners don’t miss the particulars of their 
condition; trackers who record their mental 
states are often trying to find their own way to 
personal fulfillment amid the seductions of 
marketing and the errors of common opinion; 
fitness trackers are trying to tune their 
training regimes to their own body types and 
competitive goals, but they are also looking to 
understand their strengths and weaknesses, to 
uncover potential they didn’t know they had. 
Self-tracking, in this way, is not really a tool 
of optimization but of discovery, and if tracking 
regimes that we would once have thought bizarre 
are becoming normal, one of the most interesting 
effects may be to make us re-evaluate what “normal” means.

http://nyti.ms/8Zx2A4 (NYT)


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