Dr. Sabina Brennan

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Brendan O'Connor · Neurologist: “Procrastination is a tug-of-war between parts of your brain” · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So there's a few different types, as you just alluded to.

So there's what we call

could call the pleasure-seeking procrastinators so they're the ones who will go for the immediate gratification like watching a movie or surfing the net scrolling that sort of thing or shopping online I have to say I'd be a little bit guilty about the shopping online one myself and so and then I suppose I'm the productive procrastinator you know but there's

And I'm active, but the productive procrastinator sort of will do like low priority tasks.

There might be things that are on their to do list, but they're not really important.

So they might kind of decide to reorganize the apps on their phone or sort their emails or rearrange furniture or the desktop, you know, that kind of thing where it's not really important.

really important isn't there that phrase where you know eat your frog so do the the task you're most yes don't want to do first i'm very good at ticking off a to-do list for things that are in that lower productive yeah in that lower category so that's that kind of thing but i kind of keep that as well for days if i've if i have brain fog you know where the where it's not procrastination but where a task actually feels too difficult

I always have some of those easy tasks so I can do those so at least I can feel productive.

And then there's the diversion kind of, you know, people who allow themselves to be pulled away by diversion.

So they sit down to work and then they go, oh, I really need a snack.

Oh, I should get a drink, you know, or, oh God, you know what?

I never called so-and-so.

I better ring them now and get that done.

And then there's those who, and I wish I was like this actually, because I'm a bit impatient on this.

It's those who focus on,

personal appearance and comfort, you know, like applying creams and lotions or face masks or those kind of things.

So it's kind of a little bit of indulgence.

But for me, actually, I tend to procrastinate about those things, you know.

It might be their...

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