Do not just sit there and watch the entire movie on your favorite streaming service (mine is Netflix).

Open up the movie. Pause it. Then Start working. This strategy is called suspended stimulation or reward. The prize is right in front of you. You don’t have to make a decision concerning what to do right after you can’t push through further in what you’re currently working on.

Work and struggle seem eternal. Boredom seems to be inevitable. You have to work, and that is a reality that is anti fun. To adapt to it you shut yourself away from anything that you’re interested in or that you deem as fun in the name of being serious enough to not be distracted from what really matters in life. This is why it becomes inevitable for you to be depressed. You love fun. But you’re forbidden from it because if you allow yourself a tiny bit of fun you won’t be able to stop yourself from regarding this as the only thing you ever want in life, which would render or turn you into someone who’s characterized by society as lazy, unproductive, useless, incompetent, good for nothing, leeching upon civilization, a burden on the hard working people of society, …etc. So you demonize hating the idea of having to work or having to be productive. When you were a child you got it right. Studying and doing homework sucks. Not because our current educational system is obsolete and doesn’t teach us the right way that cultivates creativity and develops critical thinking, but because the idea of having to do something that could be characterized as work, and you are supposed to do it whether you feel like it or not sucks colossally. You grow up and your inhibitory centers find it an opportunity to boss you around by treating you as a child and telling you that you’re irresponsible for not working 24/7 just to survive or monetize your passion or whatever, and you say, oh yeah, you’re right, because you’re trying to look like a grown up the easy way, instead of actually becoming a real grown up. I’m not talking you out of wanting to work all the time, following your passion, earning a living, pursuing your dreams, finding purpose, helping the world, providing value, …etc. Not in the slightest. I’m just presenting facts I observed here that ignoring them would make you hate yourself all the time to the extent of shutting yourself down permanently or until further notice, because it is interfering with your capability to succeed financially in life, which explains why although you’re presumably doing what you really love all the time, you’re suffering from insane anhedonia, and you attribute this to your poor soul being ungrateful. The answer to this is to bypass the irrational rules that your primitive mind or brain tries to govern you through. By not letting your mind have to choose between work or play, because you merge them both simultaneously, utilizing what society now enjoys calling distracting yourself, and making that distraction work for you, fueling you, stimulating you, giving life meaning, because you cannot stay for long hours working only, because it sucks., and you cannot stay for long hours having fun and playing, because that’s irresponsible. Yes your mind is that primitive and stupid, and cannot hold itself for long enough or go through several hours of heavy work, without this being an exception, not the rule that you’ll be forced to follow for the rest of your life. Your mind hates that. Just as it hated learning at school although that was profoundly beneficial to you, and although you also knew how important that kind of education was for you back then and for your future even as a young kid. You weren’t unaware back then when you were a kid of how important or beneficial school was for you during your childhood and your adulthood. Still you were free enough to understand that despite all this, school really is annoying, and boring, and you hated it (not your friends, but going to school for education) because it wasn’t playing and fun all you want; it was work. Declare playing, having fun, doing what you enjoy or whatever that you’re interested in that is not part of what you can describe as work in your life as allowed always during the most intense moments of working that you can ever go through. For example, you’re editing a video, you hit a brick wall that you can’t push through because you for some reason cannot move any further because everything suddenly feels like it’s the same or a repetition of the previous moves in a new place, you can then jump immediately to watching a movie on the same desktop that you’re working on or editing the YouTube video on, until you get an urge to go back to editing or resume whatever that you were working on earlier, because now you’re not even seeing the boring parts of work, you’re fantasizing about moments from the movie, imagining stuff unrelated to the boring task at hand, living in a dream world, while being insanely creative during finishing the current work task at hand. It’s not alternating sessions of strict pure work and play. It’s alternating sessions of jumping between work and play, and sessions of rest where you do nothing at all, not even have fun. That is, alternating sessions of mixed work and play with sessions of pure rest or combined resting sessions. In the earlier sessions you’re allowed to jump between what could be characterized as work, and what you enjoy or are interested in that cannot be characterized as work. And in the later sessions when you feel you’re tired and can no longer do anything, not even play a game, watch a TV show episode, some videos, or movies…etc., You will be allowed to only rest and do nothing (pure resting sessions), or enjoy a mixed session of rest and thinking (thought-streaming meditation) while listening to your favorite type of music (which I call the combined resting session as opposed to the pure resting sessions where nothing at all is expected to be done by you, not even thinking freely or problem solving to enhance the quality of your life or fix or solve your life problems).