Should you track numbers about your health?
Measuring weight, blood work, health metrics over time.
Axis: measure what you want to manage … focus on behaviours, not outcome numbers
Answers by date: 2 records in 1 source, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2024), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-01 | Dan Go | Dan Go says focusing on health outcomes such as weight or blood work causes anxiety, since you control behaviours, not outcomes; an action bias and simply showing up matter far more than hyper-optimising every measurement. | How to Get in Better Shape than 99% of People 00:17:22 |
| 2024-10-01 | Ali | Ali's most important takeaway on health, whether you aim to be average or in the top 1%: start measuring what you want to manage and track the changes over time. | How to Get in Better Shape than 99% of People 00:03:54 |
Timeline notes
- Dan Go: first recorded event is refine (earlier stance may be outside 2016–2024 or unrecorded)