How laborious is labor! Its a battle zone. Man must be prepared :-)
Boredom. Foster Wallace talks about how "being unbored is the key to a meaningful life". Just as we find "stuff" to keep ourselves busy, the creeping emotion of boredom keeps haunting us. It attaches to our non-local mind like cholesterol to arteries, if that makes any sense ?
Shun auto-pilot. Work hard. Keep fit.