Rico says that our perceptions of ourselves are far different from what actual data about ourselves might show.

里科表示，我们的自我观念与真实数据所显示出的大不相同。

His mood app is a good example in point. A while back, the writer considered himself to be somewhat depressed. But when he used an app to record his mood, day by day, it was almost always happy.

他的心情应用程序就是个例子。前阵子，里科总感到莫名的抑郁。自从使用应用程序记录心情以来，一天天下来，他几乎每天都是好心情。

It turns out that he was simply focusing more on the bad days, and ignoring the good days. The mood app helped him see and value the brighter side of life.

原来里科是因为太在意坏心情了，好心情都被忽略了。应用程序只是帮他发现并珍惜生活中美好的一面。

Self-quantification also helped increased Rico's productivity as a writer. He believed he was hard working enough on his new book, but then he started tracking how often he wrote, and realized he was only thinking about writing. Further self-quantification of those periods when he did do writing allowed him to recognize what time of the day he was the most productive, which in turn allowed him to make adjustments that improved his productivity.

自我量化还帮他提高写作效率。原来里科认为写新书已经够努力了，直到他开始记录写作频率，才发现自己只是在构思写作而不是付诸笔端。后来他将自己确实用于写作的时段记录在案，找到自己一天中什么时间效率最高，这使他可以依效率来做调整。

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