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Stop Overthinking : Keep It Simple
If comparison is the thief of joy, then Overthinking is the thief of progress.
When life doesn’t go according to plan, what do we do?
A lot of us overthinkers will retreat to the dark recesses of our brain where we hold court and overprocess things.
We imagine backroom meetings lead byJim from Accounting who has had it in for us since we first got moved into that department.
We replay an interaction or something we said over and over again in our heads.
We beat ourselves over making a faux pas, mispronouncing a word, reading an unspoken cue wrong or getting into an avoidable awkward situation.
The rewind button keeps getting reset and we just can’t go forward.
In most cases, there was no plot or scheme concocted by The Establishment, upper management, HR, “The Man”, the inlaws, the mean girls, the cool kids, the neighbors.
