Yup. I mean we do have to make money, and deal with the administrative complexities of modern life, and we should find strategies to cope with that. At the same time though, our brains are not somehow defective or lazy for wanting to do more interesting stuff.

With any job, there's a part of work that we enjoy and a part that we don't. This article and others on our site are meant to help people with the latter.

In the long term, we always advice people to look for work that is naturally engaging for them.

But in the meantime, a couple behavioral adjustments can turn "I hate doing this, I don't want to do this" into "Okay, let's do this one small bit".

Not bad advice, though sometimes we have to play the game with the cards we're dealt. I have to trick myself into not procrasti-forgetting my utility bills, but I don't really see a downside to that.