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Reviewing My 2020 Mood Tracker In Notion

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Jul 12, 2020 05:14 PM

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Mid-Year Mood Review

Let's be honest, anyone who started tracking mood at the beginning of 2020 was not expecting such a rollercoaster. Like many, I was optimistic for a new decade. 2020 felt so futuristic, so refreshing. I still have high hopes for the 20's. As for the immediate future, my hopes are rather low.

I'm planning to track my mood through the entire year in order to better understand what is making my poor days poor and what I need to do to fix them - hence, the "cause" property. For the mid-year point, I thought I'd make a collective review of 2020 so far.

I believe my flip-flop in mood from "Tense" to "Happy" often was due to:

A majority of my tense days resulted from health worries and a lack of income.

Realizing all I have despite my worries, and being surrounded by immediate family lifted my mood.

🥶I would classify this year so far as TENSE. 🥶

I Implemented An Extra Formula To The Database

I want to compare how many "positive" to "negative" days I had in 2020 so far. The most common mood may be negative, but the following three are positive and this shows me that my overall mood is rather "glass half full."

The Formula →

(prop("Mood") == "Happy" or prop("Mood") == "Reflective" or prop("Mood") == "Humorous" or prop("Mood") == "Neutral" or prop("Mood") == "Calm" or prop("Mood") == "Hopeful" or prop("Mood") == "Elated" or prop("Mood") == "Thankful") ? "✅Positive" : "⭕️Negative"

Positive Days: 56%

Negative Days: 44%

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It might also come from our tendency to focus more on bad news than good and on threats rather than opportunities: heuristics that are useful for directing our actions, but which misfire when attempting to objectively assess the balance of bad and good

Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.

Seneca the Younger explicitly set out such a vast intergenerational project: The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Let us be satisfied with what we have found out, and let our descendants also contribute something to the truth… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.

But it follows that while our choices can lock things in, closing off possibilities, they can’t open up new ones. So any reduction in humanity’s potential should be understood as permanent.

Recognizing that people matter equally, regardless of their geographic location, is a crucial form of moral progress

Just as it would be wrong to think that other people matter less the further they are from you in space, so it is to think they matter less the further away from you they are in time. The value of their happiness, and the horror of their suffering, is undiminished.

If a catastrophe this century were to cause our extinction, then humanity’s life would be shorter and thereby worse. Given that we may just be in our infancy, it would be much shorter; much worse. Even if there were no one remaining to judge this as a tragedy, we can rightly judge it so from here. Just as we can judge events in other places, so we can judge events in other times.

Like many adolescents, humanity is impatient and imprudent; sometimes shockingly so. At times this stems from an inability to appropriately weigh our short-term gains against our longterm interests. More commonly, it is because we completely neglect our longterm future, not even considering it in our decision-making. And like the adolescent, we often stumble straight into risks without making any kind of conscious decision at all.

When we put the interests of our current generation far above those of the generations to follow, we display our lack of patience. When we recognize the importance of our future yet still fail to prioritize it, it is a failure of self-discipline. When a backward step makes us give up on our future—or assume it to be worthless—we show a lack of hope and perseverance, as well as a lack of responsibility for our own actions.

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