Mirae Asset Chairman Park Hyeon-joo reportedly checks things like heart rate, blood glucose, and blood pressure when making important decisions so he can use the moments when he is most capable of making a rational choice. These days, wearables are excellent and we are entering an era of AI-powered personal augmentation, so I have been building and using apps like this myself, and they work well.
High HRV means parasympathetic dominance, in other words lower stress and a body that is more at rest. When HRV bottoms out, it often signals higher physical fatigue or a stronger stress response. HRV also tends to drop when blood glucose is too high or too low.
If you combine those HRV characteristics with last night's sleep quality and quantity, resting heart rate, and how much exertion your body can likely handle that day, you can estimate your condition quite accurately. If you track which situations and people create stress for you, you can identify your energy vampires and respond accordingly. Once I turned this into a dashboard and used it when making one-way-door decisions, I could viscerally understand why Park Hyeon-joo does this and how useful it is.
I often talk these days about using AI inside companies, so the conversation usually turns toward jobs disappearing. But from where I stand, AI is also one of the best tools for augmenting individuals. If you gather your biomarkers and surrounding data, ask questions about them, visualize them, and intervene when needed, your life becomes something different from before. Realizing that what I feel, what I think, and what my autonomic nervous system is doing are not always the same has improved my situational awareness, and that has improved the quality of my decisions.
