<p>I understand the feeling. I also suck at forcing myself to do something I don’t care about. On the other hand, if it’s something that I like, I can effortlessly become absorbed for hours, and those hours will feel like a few minutes.</p>
<p>By the way, as a CS guy, if you were required to write a program that relies on math in some way, would you feel motivated to teach yourself the necessary math or even then you couldn’t bother?</p>