Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently less tractable to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the essence of your company, say, or would this person work well with other people in a team? In sticky customer-service situatio...
Overthinking is a natural tendency, especially when you’re figuring out how to get your life together. However, you won’t resolve anything by overthinking. More likely, you’re just giving yourself irrational scenarios to stress over that may or may not be true. Your thoughts are the mo...
When it comes to self-talk, Theorists have a tendency to beat themselves up over a couple of things. The first is not knowing or understanding something, although Theorists trust that they can figure out anything given enough time. The second is overthinking. Theorists, and especially the Judgi...
Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently less tractable to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the essence of your company, say, or would this person work well with other people...
life, you likely rely on conventional wisdom when you’re making all the countless decisions of an ordinary day. You might consider what it would be like to weigh new ideas each time you moved or had a thought. You probably wouldn’t get much accomplished with that kind of overthinking. ...
When it comes to dealing with rejection, it can be hard to find the right way to cope. It's easy to start overthinking and blaming yourself, but that won't help in the long run. Instead, focus on taking care of yourself and enjoying your womanhood. ...
There could be more than one reason for a postponement, so take it at face value without overthinking the why. How you respond is key.“I understand, and I’m sorry that you won’t be able to make it,”may mean the difference of whether or not you will be asked out again. We liv...
Radical acceptance can bring a greater sense of peace By reducing the anxiety that often comes from unmet expectations, you can attain a greater sense of inner peace through radical acceptance. Radical acceptance can improve decision-making and problem-solving Overthinking can make easier decisions...
organization.The value of many managerial decisions lies in the simple fact that they have been made at all.Yet as data explodes,the temptation to ask for one more bit of analysis has become much harder to resist.Managers often suffer from overthinking,turning a simple prob...
become much harder to resist. A well established psychological phenomenon known as “verbal overshadowing” captures the danger of overthinking things: people are more likely to misidentify someone in a line up if they have spent time writing a description of their faces. Managers ...