# Good Tediousness

**Published by:** [anjor](https://paragraph.com/@anjor/)
**Published on:** 2024-03-10
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@anjor/good-tediousness

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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, extremely tedious. And I am sure there are tons of other examples of tediousness you can think of. The key question is, which of these is a tediousness that you are ok with, tediousness that in some ways is so integral to the process that you at some level enjoy it. When you figure that you will be better informed about what makes you tick.

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