Actually doing what you don't want to depends on how you punish and reward yourself. Best-selling author, Brandon Sanderson, points out the irony of mastering what we're forced to overcome in one of his 2025 Writing Lecture Series videos.
"The things you're bad at—that you have to force yourself to learn or you will not be able to succeed professionally—tend to end up as your greatest strengths."
For Brandon, that was learning to revise his work.
To learn whether you respond to carrots, sticks, or something else—ask yourself "what makes me consistently do the things I want to have done?"
What made you do that?
onward.
-dmac