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A better way is to slam it our under artificial deadline pressure in exchange for some reward.

But be aware that sometimes "it's too easy is an excuse for unconscientiousness inability to do work at the demanded level of precision. Often smart people have a problem where that write off their low abilities in some areas as a problem with the assignment instead of acknowledging that they lack a valuable aptitude like conscientious.




Boring doesn’t necessarily mean easy. It could mean mundane. If the outcome isn’t rewarding and the time and energy investment is high that can lead to stress. If you start narrating in your head about how unfair this is or what else you’d rather be doing then you are really sunk.

For people used to a certain intensity level, just sweeping a large enough floor could be thought of as a punishment. It’s straightforward and you can’t really speed it up much, which makes the act much harder to get through than it appears to be, creating dissonance.




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