The business of all the documents on his desk could be easily settled by reading through them one at a time and stamping them as necessary.
For jobs like that, once you started concentrating, you would be surprised at how quickly it got finished.
Wondering if you could complete the paperwork faster than new work would get piled up in front of you, wondering if you could be quicker, thinking you’d turn it into a match and see- if you concentrated on your work with those kinds of thoughts, then doing paperwork naturally became something that was sort of fun.