Captivate: make it interesting

You can't force yourself to care about a boring task. You can borrow interest from somewhere else.

Boring is my kryptonite.

If you give me an interesting problem, I’ll work on it for six hours straight, forget to eat or go to bathroom or any other life obligations that previously seemed important.

But a boring task? Even a really simple, probably-should-take-five-minutes task? I’ll stare at it for hours, my brain doing everything it can to avoid it.

It’…