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I've done this lots of times. The solution was shear willpower.
I took the hard road. Sorry to not be of more help :(
Could you explain an example? I think it's very unlikely that you get the kind of curiosity that Feynman talks about by shear willpower.
I don't know, maybe I'm different? Maybe I'm uniquely able to reprogram my mind? I find that anything can be made interesting just by evoking my curiosity and refusing to get distracted. You say "it's very unlikely that you get the kind of curiosity that Feynman talks about by shear willpower," but in fact I find it to be relatively straight forward to do just that. I don't know what else to say.
That's interesting.
Could you get into more detail about what you do?
What do you mean specifically with "evoking your curiosity"? Do you have a process?
How many hour per day do you spent chasing something with that curiosity?
Internal monologue when presented with a 'boring' task:
"Ok this sucks. Complaint time is over. Let's find something interesting about it. Oh that's funny, you could make that into a game. Or that's something I'd never thought about; I wonder if it is similar to ... Oh hey, I wonder if I can make this part of the process more efficient for the next round." etc. etc.
It's not a process so much as a frame of mind.
Imagine you were stuck on a desert island, with nothing but sand to keep you company. Ignoring survival concerns, a curious person might eventually resort to sorting sand to see if there is anything to learn from distributions of their shapes and sizes.
Imagine you are enslaved and tasked with carrying stones from a quarry to a defensive fortification, from dawn to dusk. A curious person might try to learn something about the local geology by inspecting and remembering aggregate information about the stones being carried.
Or with any task, you might just focus on doing that task better or more efficiently. There's a certain amount of curiousity involved in wanting to do a task better which leads to professionalism.
Every moment that I live.