An experiment on public commitment
Public humiliation is a punishment worse than death.
This statement is 1. wrong, because death is the simultaneous murder of every experience that could have been or would have been and just being able to experience anything is (maybe) enough of a reason for living, making death the worst punishment imaginable, but 2. public humiliation is still far from being pleasant in any way. I'd argue being humiliated publicly at least feels worse than taking a punch to the face.
That being said, here's the plan. I'll announce publicly (right here in fact): I'll share at least a bit of insight into what I'm currently working on / thinking about creatively in some sort of Weekly Report. I don't commit to a specific scope, but to doing it every week. There by I basically place a sword of Damocles above myself that will fall down showing the world that I am not in any way trustworthy1, the moment I don't follow through on my plans.
Going further this weekly report and my want to show something of value, will - again hopefully (remember this is an experiment) - prevent myself from being lazy and not doing anything creatively for a whole week.
In a third step, me showing what I am working on, might pressure myself into more often finishing those projects.
Well, bye then. I hope I could inspire you to do something similar. (not that I know that this works, as I, while writing this, haven’t published even a single post)
Note, that I am aware of the fact that this is not really how reality works and that there probably won't be any people who will think of me as not being trustworthy or anything worse, if I don't follow through on my plans here, but that's not the signaling my brain should get for this to work.
