Why measurement matters for improvement

When we seek to improve ourselves by developing virtues such as self-control, politeness, or kindness, we often make resolutions that don't sufficiently translate into transformative actions. We may attribute our failure to our weak willpower, but the problem may lie elsewhere: say, in low clarity about progress.

This is especially true when we are seeking improvement in areas that don’t lend themselves readily to measurement. For example, if we decide to control our anger, we don't have an anger meter that can easily show us how much we succeeded or failed. And when something is not measured, we tend to live in the domain of guesses or, at best, guesstimates — wherein we may think we are improving when we are actually stagnating or even regressing; or vice versa.

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