Feynman's story on how he lost the spark for physics and got it back might be instructive: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/richard-feynman-fighting-burnout-with-cu

Feynman's story on how he lost the spark for physics and got it back might be instructive: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/richard-feynman-fighting-burnout-with-curiosity.html https://www.mymoneyblog.com/richard-feynman-fighting-burnout... If I were translating that, pick small interesting projects. If you start to worry that you're not going to complete it, break it down into a set of smaller interesting subproblems and only commit yourself to 1-2 of them and then re-evaluate when you finish. There is also the possibility that you're at the point where pursuing something other than programming might be more meaningful to you.