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...
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...
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...
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 ...
I’m going to try something radical and very un-Kwon-like, which is to not plan it out any more specifically than that, because I’ve been in major overthinking mode lately about my writing and I think if I just get something on a page to jump-start myself, that will be an accompl...
I was in the middle of a long drive. A drive I was in no rush to finish. I really enjoy driving. I enjoy the long stretches of road when the songs on the radio become a blur of all things country or all things talk, and the best solution to the static mayhem that inevitably happ...
Stopping explosive behavior is about first aid, prevention, and problem-solving. Anxiety 4 Min Read 6 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Regain Control For anxious people, an upsetting event can send their ruminating mind into overdrive. Anxiety 6 Min Read How to Cope with the Fear of a...
The problem is that fear of physical intimacy gets in the way of us having healthy, authentic relationships. If we are constantly overthinking and panicking at the idea of getting close to someone, we are not living in the present moment. If we are not present, we miss out on a chance ...
Yet as data gushes from every pore of the modern organisation, the temptation to ask for one more bit of analysis has 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 ...