This is the only thing that seems to bring my motivation back

I’ve noticed a weird pattern in how my motivation sometimes comes back, and I’m wondering if others experience this too. When I lose motivation on a task, I usually fall into doing nothing productive doomscrolling, random videos, unplanned stuff. The task just sits there, heavy and untouched. But sometimes, while I’m scrolling or searching something unrelated, I stumble on a Reddit post, article, or random detail that connects to a very specific part of the task I’ve been avoiding. Not the whole task, just a small, interesting angle of it. And for some reason, that’s enough to pull me back in. It’s not discipline. It’s not forcing myself. It’s more like curiosity hijacks the avoidance. I suddenly want to see how that new thing relates to the task I dropped, and before I know it, I’m working again. I’ve started calling this “passive motivation” because it happens without me trying to motivate myself at all. I’m curious: * Have you found a way to trigger this deliberately instead of waiting for it to happen randomly? I’m trying to understand whether this is just a personal quirk or something others deal with too.