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Ask HN: How do you force yourself in doing something you don't like?

2 pointsby SpaceInvaderalmost 7 years ago
My whole professional career I struggled with certain tasks - mostly paperwork related, I try to avoid them as much as I can. While I love technical job and hands on I can&#x27;t force myself to do necessary paperwork and this does have an impact on how I&#x27;m being seen by my boss.<p>How do you deal with such things? My goal is to push mentally these tasks into &quot;it&#x27;s not that bad to do&quot;.

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lovelearningalmost 7 years ago
I do that by breaking the boring task into chunks of size one - one page, one text file, one paragraph - and doing that one chunk in between tasks I enjoy. Enjoyable task for half hour, 5 minutes on next chunk, enjoyable task for half hour, 5 minutes on next chunk...<p>&quot;One&quot; is the magic number for me, make it anything greater and my brain seems incapable of understanding 2&#x2F;3&#x2F;4 != infinity, collapsing itself into the procrastination pit.
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