Productivity Secret 42. Swear at the Mirror

Mirrors give me the heeby jeebies. I have this fear that I'll look at the mirror, and I'll move and my mirror image won't move. Or that I'll accidentally start chanting Bloody Mary and then a ghost will eat my face.

This can get kind of annoying. Sometimes I need a wee when I'm alone in the house and it's dark, and I'm like ffs now I have to deal with the possibility of a ghost eating my face when all I wanted was a wee.

My new strategy for this, which I've empirically verified 3 times, is now whenever I see a mirror I give it the middle finger. Fuck you mirror, you're not better than me. You prick.

Why is this a great strategy?

Well I think JK Rowling was onto something with boggarts. And although I don't have a wand, my middle finger is kind of like a wand.

Also, to me it does seem like swearing at the mirror does actually decrease the probability of a monster eating my face. Like, considering the world where I am swearing at the mirror or the world where I am not swearing at the mirror, I would actually be more surprised if a monster ate my face in the swearing scenario. Because of evidential decision theory.