Originally, the ancients liked to borrow wine to eliminate their sorrows, but the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty said: "The water is more flowing when the knife is drawn, and the sorrow is more sorrowful when the glass is raised." Why can't the wine relieve Li Bai's worries when it comes to it? Some people think that Li Bai is drinking alcohol. The more you drink, the more stuffy you get! In the end, he was exhausted and drunk. In the long run, no matter how strong a person is, his spirit will collapse because of this. It can be seen that the influence of boredom on the spirit is very obvious.

A few years ago, Dr. Joseph Barmack published a limited report in the Journal of Psychology about some of his experiments that proved that boredom can lead to fatigue. Dr. Barmac had a large group of students do a series of experiments that he knew they were not interested in doing in the slightest. The result? All the students felt very tired, dozing off, headaches, eye strain, easily irritable, and some even felt very sick to their stomachs. Are all of these "imaginary"? No, these students have done metabolic experiments, and from the results of the experiments, they concluded that when a person feels bored, his body's blood pressure and oxidation actually decrease. And if the person finds his work interesting, the whole metabolism will immediately accelerate.

When we're doing something we're interested in and excited about, we rarely get tired. For example, John recently spent several days fishing for salmon on a lakeside vacation in Los Angeles, USA. He had to walk through thickets taller than him, over many fallen branches, over many fallen old trees—but after eight hours of hard work, he felt no tiredness. Why? Because he was very excited, he was very interested, and he felt that he was very successful, and he caught six very large salmon. But if he thinks fishing is a boring thing, how do you think he will feel? He must have been exhausted from the rush to and fro on the mountain at an altitude of 7,000 feet.

Even physically demanding sports such as mountain climbing may not make you feel tired as boredom. S. S. Brown, President of the Minneapolitan A&S Bank of Naples Mr. H. Kingman said: In July 1943, the Canadian government asked the Alpine Mountaineering Club of Canada to assist the Welsh Corps in mountaineering training, and Mr. Kingman was one of the instructors selected to train these soldiers. He said he and other instructors — men between the ages of 42 and 59 — took the young soldiers through the arduous journey of glaciers and snow, and climbed 40-foot cliffs with ropes and some tiny climbing equipment. They climbed the Peak of the Meter, the Vice President's Peak, and many other unnamed peaks in the Crescent River Valley in Los Angeles, Canada, and after 15 hours of climbing, the very strong young men were completely exhausted.

Are they tired because their muscles aren't trained very well when they're training? Anyone with rigorous military training would have ignored such ridiculous questions. The reason why they are so exhausted is because they have no interest in mountaineering. Many of them were so tired that they fell asleep after dinner. But are the instructors—those who are two or three times older than the soldiers—tired? Yes, but not exhausting. The coaches sat there after dinner and chatted for hours about their day. The reason why they don't get tired to the point of exhaustion is because they don't tire of it.

If you are a person who works in the mind, the reason why you are tired is rarely due to your overwork, but rather to your lack of work. For example, if you don't do what you agreed to do, you have problems here and there, everything goes wrong that day, nothing gets done, and when you get home, you're exhausted — and dizzy.

The next day, everything was going really well in the office. You've done 40 times as much work as you did the day before, but you come home in good spirits. You must have had this experience, everyone has been.

What can we learn from this? That is, our fatigue is usually not due to work, but to worry, tension and unhappiness.

If you "pretend" to be interested in your work, a little bit of pretending will make your interest come true and can also reduce your fatigue, tension, and apprehension.

A few years ago, Harlan Howard made a decision that turned out to be completely for the better in his life. He turned a very boring job into a very interesting one. His job was boring, washing dishes, cleaning counters, and selling ice cream at the high school welfare club, while the other boys were playing soccer or dating girls. Harlan Howard hated the job, but because he had to, he decided to use the opportunity to study ice cream — how ice cream is made, what's in it, and why some ice cream tastes so good. He studied the chemistry of ice cream, which turned him into a prodigy in that high school's chemistry course. Later, he became particularly interested in food chemistry and enrolled at Massachusetts State University, where he specialized in food and nutrition. Then the New York Cocoa Exchange offered a $100,000 prize for an essay contest on the application of cocoa and chocolate, an open essay contest for all college students, and guess who won the first prize...... That's right, it's Harlan Howard.

A few years ago, a young man worked in a factory. Because he was standing next to a lathe all day and making screws, he felt that the work was very boring, and his name was Sam. He wanted to quit his job very much, but he was afraid that he would not find another job. Since he had to do this boring work, he tried to make it interesting. So, he competed with another worker who was in charge of the machine, and one of them made a model of his own machine first, and gave it to the other to grind it to the specified diameter. They occasionally switch devices to see who makes more screws. Their foreman appreciated Sam's speed and precision in his work, and soon transferred him to a better position. And this was just the beginning of a series of promotions for him. Thirty years later, Sam became chairman of the Badwin Lokomotiv Manufacturing Company. If he hadn't tried to make his boring job interesting, he might have been a worker all his life.

As long as you have the right mindset, you can make any job less annoying.

Keep reminding yourself that being interested in what you do will stop you from worrying and may eventually lead to a promotion and a raise. Even if you don't, at least your fatigue will be minimized so that you can enjoy your spare time.