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by makmanalp 5092 days ago
Coding or writing are not uniform tasks. There are ups and downs, parts that are tedious, parts that go smoothly, parts that will not budge one inch despite lots of time put in (bug hunting!). It's not all the same.

Building up on that, you can't control if the next task you have is going to be a tedious or smooth one. If you have a bug, or have to parse a CSV file in your assembly language program, then you just gotta do it. Sometimes there may be a way around it, but most often there isn't. Otherwise, you'd be able to circumvent the whole task in the first place.

You might think you like all ice cream, until someone hands you some anchovies ice cream or something.