"If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement." (Mark Twain)
I have a perceptual problem where my mind quite quickly labels things as work as soon as I start doing a bunch of planning. Once something is 'work' that I'm not being paid for, I then don't feel like starting it. I rarely play computer games any more largely because I have too many _plans_ about what computer games I should play.
This doesn't mean I wouldn't have more fun doing the programming than sitting around browsing the internet.
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Maybe you just don't want to finish the projects you started because they're not as fun as you imagined?
"If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement." (Mark Twain)
I have a perceptual problem where my mind quite quickly labels things as work as soon as I start doing a bunch of planning. Once something is 'work' that I'm not being paid for, I then don't feel like starting it. I rarely play computer games any more largely because I have too many _plans_ about what computer games I should play.
This doesn't mean I wouldn't have more fun doing the programming than sitting around browsing the internet.