so this is not about finding something to do you like:

if I am both bored and frustrated and sure that it cannot get any worse (only then!!!), I sometimes start consuming media and situations I otherwise would think of as too overwhelming.
(for me: extremely upsetting and difficult films I still think are worth watching, pieces of literature that clearly suggest things that are not compatible with my own ideas at all or that seem very hard to understand, doing something that is very unfamiliar to me, doing something the wrong way on purpose, etc.)
sort of works but in a way that you don't want all the time….

(doesn't do anything about being a boring person though)