Lifting Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps

The phrase pull yourself up by your bootstraps was a satirical phrase meant to point out how ridiculous it is to say that hard work will make everything better for you. It's used unironically now to support the idea that the statement itself says is nonsensical. What would pulling out the morality components of executive function look like? How can divorcing yourself from an assumption of motivation or laziness or effort? Like, just putting those in a bag in the closet for now and just being open to this idea that Brandon's sharing about energy.