I think we wildly undervalue two similar but distinct skills: the ability to cope with boredom (the focus of this article) and the ability to be entertained by boring things. If you can build up your tolerance for doing boring things, and also trick yourself into thinking "coding this boring feature is going to be AWESOME because it's going to make people's lives so much easier" you've got two extremely useful tools in your belt.

Of course, the third tool of "being extremely irritated by boring things and feeling a strong impulse to automate them" is also an excellent one to have.