Funnily enough, Kevin Bacon, while working at the CN Tower around the time of the release of Apollo 13.

I don’t think you can. This is part of depression: never feeling motivated to do things. My life improved when I began to think like this, because I stopped wasting energy worrying about how to find motivation and how terrible it is that I don’t want to do things.

Instead, I followed a few simple rules that seemed to help:

• If I didn’t want to do anything, I tried doing stupid administrative work that required no creativity. Cleaning the house. Scanning receipts. Anything that would suck, but at least feel easy to do.
• If I had the impulse to do anything, I did it. Even if it wasn’t important. Even if it meant not doing something else important. I just did it. For me, that was often reading, but sometimes it was something creative.
• If I felt good, I didn’t have to do any kind do work. I sometimes just enjoyed feeling good for a few minutes or an hour or whatever.

This way, I felt less guilty for feeling good and not working and I felt less guilty for wanting to do something that wasn’t important. Gradually, I felt better about my situation. Motivation to do some creative work eventually followed.

I don’t know how well this fits your situation, but maybe something in here could help you.

Good luck.

I’ve been happy with Sync for close to a decade now.

Herb Mertz, The Selection Effect.

I didn’t know the specific reference (I haven’t seen that special yet, so thanks for mentioning it), but I recognize the joke structure.

"The average person has… " is very different from “People on average have…”.

I suspect you meant the second, but sometimes people truly mean the first.

The difference doesn’t matter until it very suddenly matters. 😉

I didn’t even think of the alternative understanding until you replied. Oops.

Trying to make textareas better, which tends to make them worse. I’d settle for predictable.

No. I haven’t cared as much about that and I’m not sure why. I’ve both learned the old fashioned way and haven’t minded the results. I very rarely get the internal temperature wrong enough to not enjoy the food.

For the pan, not the meat.

Laser thermometer. I learned a lot about better temperatures at which to cook things and now get more repeatable results when cooking.

Kitchen scale. Recipes are easier to prepare when weighing ingredients as opposed to using measuring spoons and cups.

Both make food a better experience, which leads to more satisfactory meals and eating less overall.

Buy a bowling center.

“Is it that you can’t have children?”

Reply that never fails: “What was your intention when you asked that question?”