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Chapter 5 of WILLPOWER is about the quantified self. It is about how understanding what it is and how it works can help us deal with serious obsessive compulsive neurotic behaviour and save much pain and suffering.


I am very much in favour of trying to alleviate pain and suffering. However, having recently been subjected to some of the philosophies underlying “The Secret”, I am inclined to be a bit extra cautious. In this case, I see something that, basically, I could identify with, that has been hijacked by “libertarian” ideals and has turned into something that is self-centred, uncaring and socially destructive. Anyone see a parallel with some religious practices there?

There never was nothing.