Enjoyment only comes once you are good enough at something. At first it's a chore. Getting off the couch and going for a jog is a chore at first, a habit later

Enjoyment only comes once you are good enough at something. At first it's a chore. Getting off the couch and going for a jog is a chore at first, a habit later and an enjoyment even later. Reading can be excruciating if you are hooked on smartphone apps and have a constant buzz in your head of all the exciting things you could be playing and watching and getting outraged about on apps and social media. But it gets better later on, and becomes natural to just shut out the noise. Initial discomfort is okay, we cannot just always follow the path of least resistance. Especially in these times when literally billions and billions of marketing dollars are spent on keeping you off-track, assisted by the brightest scientific minds, squeezing every last percentage out of making you a miserable mess.