| Life Barometer | Definition of Life Barometer | Note about where your own bar was. |
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| DISCLAIMER | I don’t put much weight into this assesment. I like to think that humans are a little more complex than what can be fully represented and deconstructed in a 60 question quiz. I could have picked intetionally picked the “right” answers to these questions just as easily as I could have picked the “wrong” answers. Furthermore, I don’t subscribe to the notion that “good” and “bad” are fundamental, universally applicable ideas. I think that what may show up as a high level of “Life satisfaction” doesn’t necessarily mean that person is actually satisfied with their life. Same goes for every other barometer, it’s like trying to measure how much water is in the ocean by drawing an arbitrary line in the sand. The tides roll in and out making the entire practice utterly pointless. There are ways to do it, but it’s with one-on-one deep conversations, not an online quiz. Altogether these results stood out to me as rather arbitrary, and meaningless. With that said, I’ll do my best to interpret these results as fairly as I can. |
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| Good Health | Eating healthy food, being active, and feeling fit | I got a below average I believe? It sits right in “challenging”. That said, I feel pretty fit. I can run pretty fast, and can do a lot of pull-ups. I walk my dog every day, and often go on long bike rides. I don’t exactly eat super healthy all the time, but I don’t really think that’s enough to call me "challenged" in this category. But what do I know. |
| Relationship Quality | Having friends to talk to and rely on at all times | This was quite high(relatively speaking), actually breaking into “Functional”. To me it feels like this should be lower than the GH barometer, I often feel like I don’t have anyone to talk to. Having friends that you hang out with does not equal “having someone to rely on at all times”. What does that even mean anyway, it’s not like I want to hoist my problems on a bunch of different people. Why would they care? I guess this could be characterized as a lack of trust in others? Either way, it definitely does not seem like it should be higher than GH. |
| Life Satisfaction | Feeling happy overall and finding joy in yourself, others, and life in general | This metric was tied for first place, but still hovering just under “skilled” in “functional”. This seems mostly accurate to me. On average I’m like 50 percent pretty happy, 30 percent contented, 20 percent kinda bummed. I think I’m pretty “normal”(as if there’s such a thing) in this respect. I’m a lot happier when I get to look at beautiful things (like nature for example), than I am when I have to do things I’m not really interested in doing . |
| Personal Achievement | Doing well in school and in life including sports, hobbies, etc. | This was sitting in functional. I take issue with the phrasing of this section “Doing well in school/life/hobbies etc..” Doing well? What does that even mean? Is it whether I think I’m doing well? Or is it how good I am at it? To me doing something really well is way less important than the enjoyment you feel when doing it. The point of life isn’t to achieve great things, the point of life is to struggle, and fail, and enjoy attempting to achieve great things. I don’t even know where to begin talking about my score, except that yeah, I’m good at academics and I like doing my hobbies. Big whoop. |