[4.27.2015]I’m not always the most productive at work. I get distracted by my phone and sp

[4.27.2015]I’m not always the most productive at work. I get distracted by my phone and spend time reading articles online instead of working consistently. Lately, however, work has been super hectic, so I can ill afford my normal distractedness.I obviously don’t find any intrinsic motivation from my job, so I decided I needed some extrinsic motivation. First I tried putting a habit into HabitRPG to reward myself for five minutes of focused work, and punish myself for each time I interrupted a five minute work period.That helped a little, but I soon found that it wasn’t enough. Getting a “+” did work to encourage me to focus more, but the “-” wasn’t enough to make me keep my attention on my work for very long. That’s when I had the idea to take my “reward/punishment for five minutes of focused work” concept and adapt it.If the punishment I was inflicting on myself wouldn’t work, I’d just have to have someone else inflict the punishment. And since intangible punishments like losing health or gold in HabitRPG clearly weren’t effective, the new punishment would need to be more…corporal.So I enlisted Reaction Junkie’s help. He’d recently gotten a new toy — a golf club with the head cut off. It’s super stingy and very painful. I limp a little for a while after a good whack. It hurts in such an awful way that being hit with it is something I would actually want to avoid, unlike most impact.I asked Reaction Junkie if he would hit me once with the golf club for every five minutes I was distracted at work. Of course, he readily agreed, eager to use his new toy on his favorite toy. The next day at work, I was more focused than usual, but was still distracted for about ten hits worth of time. That evening, Reaction Junkie put me in the straightjacket I bought him for Valentine’s Day and put me on the floor behind him while he worked. After torturing me with a Hitachi, he moved on to the golf club. Before this, I’d only ever gotten a whack or two at a time from it, so I wasn’t fully prepared for how painful it was.As I writhed in pain, I was thankful for the restriction of the straightjacket. As much as it sucked not to be able to move, it was for the best, since I’m sure I would have injured myself thrashing about. The impacts were super stingy, and the pain was deep, not just on the surface like some stingy pain is.After that first round of punishment, I was much more motivated to focus at work. You can even see the change in the graph below. Can you guess when we instituted the golf club-based productivity encouragement system?Turns out, consensual corporal punishment works wonders for me. -- source link

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