Farnam Street Newsletter:
The meaning you give work determines its difficulty.
A coder working on a passion project works 12 hours straight and calls it energizing. That same programmer, doing maintenance on legacy code they consider meaningless, feels exhausted after 2 hours.
Your relationship with the work shapes its weight more than the work itself.
The way you see your work defines its impact. If you treat your job as insignificant, it will be. But if you believe it matters, no matter how simple it seems, you’ll naturally strive for excellence. The same task can be draining or energizing, depending on the meaning you assign to it. So why not make every task meaningful?
The Hayyan Chronicle 
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