There is good tediousness and there is bad tediousness. Understanding which tediousness you enjoy, or at the very least don’t mind is crucial to understanding what motivates you -- what keeps you engaged. Research can be utterly tedious. Sifting through tons of data, trying to absorb the minute variations to distill patterns -- it’s extremely tedious. Software can be utterly tedious too. Working through many different edge cases, trying to write code that does more than “just work”. Again, ex...