jazz_singh

I'm personally pretty riveted by this article -- it seems to translate the beneficial mental health activity of tracking your emotional progression over time (which lots of cool, useful mental health apps and startups allow users to do now, and this genre of hack is one of the most common at mental health hackathons) to an entirely different perspective on how to view human existence.

I wonder what the trade-offs of adopting this perspective are. On the one hand, we'd become more attuned to our emotional states, and mental health would presumably be positively affected; but on the other hand, in creating a society that relates every single venture and activity and thought process back to the end goal of how the individual feels about it, aren't we making people a lot more selfish?

Maybe this perspective in combination with a healthy sense of altruism, ethics, vision / dreams / ambitions, etc., might be a neat way to view the world. Or maybe a lot of us already view the world a lot like this, subconsciously.