I tried a parade of experiments and tracked all the factors that I thought might influence my energy levels – including sleep times, sleep duration, hydration, exercise, medications, melatonin, doing a sleep study, temperature, naps, and nutrition.
I’d love to see a separate post to learn more about the details and results of this so that I could try it myself.
I’ve tried doing this but for focus instead of fatigue, but it became too tedious to track all these factors every day. This was especially true since I felt that a) there were so many confounding factors in my day to day life that I couldn’t control (e.g. the type of work I’m doing that day or the # of conversations) and b) with so many variables, I’d need a very large sample size to create an accurate enough model. Now I just track 2-3 variables at a time that I believe are likely to have the biggest impact on my focus.
I’d love to see a separate post to learn more about the details and results of this so that I could try it myself.
I’ve tried doing this but for focus instead of fatigue, but it became too tedious to track all these factors every day. This was especially true since I felt that a) there were so many confounding factors in my day to day life that I couldn’t control (e.g. the type of work I’m doing that day or the # of conversations) and b) with so many variables, I’d need a very large sample size to create an accurate enough model. Now I just track 2-3 variables at a time that I believe are likely to have the biggest impact on my focus.
I’m also interested in this, there are lots of things I’d want to track (and use the data from) but I don’t know a good not messy framework for it.
I used a Lights sheet ( https://www.ultraworking.com/lights ) to track the variables alongside my daily habits, to reduce overhead.