Messages we were given growing up taught us that treats and rewards and their accompanying dopamine hit come after we’ve done the hard thing, the dutiful, boring, no-fun thing. The well-known productivity tip of ‘eat the frog first’ tells us it’s best to tackle the most challenging item on our to do list before anything else.

But what effect does this insistence on putting off of the good stuff until we’ve done the hard stuff have on those of us with neurodivergent brains? Is this way of tackling the to do list actually making us procrastinate and struggle even more to get on with what we want or need to do?

I address what’s really getting in our way in this episode…

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