Comment by agumonkey

Now there may be bio/psychological differences here, you (and I) seem to enjoy physical activity. Some might very well not.. I'd say it mostly depend on how the activity fits the person too (speed, effort, balance of type of efforts, sense of improving skills and not just mindless sweating).

I like computing work, but it depends the context, if it's grinding through obscure and unreliable program semantics .. it's less fun. Unless you approach it mathematically (like scientific inquiry trying to discover how it may work), it's gonna be grinding.

If you have simple building blocks and you can just unleash creativity.. then it's different, it's pleasurable. You're the only limit.

Now even in that case, my best days is when I can alternate thinking hard, and sport. 20 min of jogging whenever I'm stuck on a feature branch helped me a lot getting stuck mentally and emotionally.

And in a way, thinkers rarely sit down, they move around, it's vibrant.. it's not just grinding on a keyboard.