Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Wednesday morning.

Now ordinarily, I don't talk too much, I think I hope about meditation itself, certainly

not meditation using the headspace app.

But one thing that keeps coming up, and my guess is if you're listening to this, you

probably have some vague interest in meditation, in my opinion, some assuming you do, but something

that keeps coming up, which is around the run streak.

Now I don't know if we've had more emails about anything else over the years.

If you don't use the app, then essentially what I'm talking about with the run streak

is that every day that you show up, you participate in some activity on the app, it clocks

it, it logs it as a day, and over time the more days you do that in a row, obviously the

higher your run streak gets, and look, we've had people with run streaks now more than five

years, so they've done it every single day for over five years and longer.

And for some people, the run streak is something that really motivates them, it inspires them,

they see it as a measure of accountability, they find it really helpful.

For other people, they find it really daunting, maybe they get one or two days into it, and

then something comes up, they don't meditate, aren't able to use the app, and then when

they come back to it, there's a zero.

And so there's a sense, perhaps, for some people, that they have failed in some way, that

they haven't kept their run streak going, and in that sense, it's demotivating.

Now of course, the easy way around this would just have a feature to turn it off.

I'll leave that up to the product people, but anyway, the point here is that the run streak

is important to have your own relationship with it.

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