Ryan Lizza adds to his profile of Obama’s OMB director, Peter Orszag, telling us how Orszag uses a website to motivate himself. The website is stickK.
StickK has different tools, known as “commitment devices,” to incentivize its users, and Orszag uses one that makes a credit-card donation to an “anti-charity”—some cause that he finds loathsome—if he doesn’t reach his goal. He even recruited a friend as a “verifier” to make sure he couldn’t cheat the system.
Go read the post (it’s brief) to find out what Orszag’s “anti-charity” might be.
I actually think this sounds like a very useful motivational tool. What would your “stick” be?
Stickk’s slogan is “Put a contract out on yourself.”