Oh cool, so basically this is about finding a way to cheat your brain into doing things it doesn't want to do. Maybe a good approach would be to find something you actually like to do instead and reflect on your choices and priorities in life?
It's amusing that you need a professor to tell you how to convince yourself that your life doesn't suck. A more natural approach might be to change what you are trying to do in the first place...
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.
It's amusing that you need a professor to tell you how to convince yourself that your life doesn't suck. A more natural approach might be to change what you are trying to do in the first place...
Guess what, the brain was not made to earn money.