A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Hadar Shemesh titled "Are you an overthinker in English?" The speaker describes how overthinking—worrying about what and how to say things, word and tense choice, and replaying conversations afterwards—stems from perfectionism and prevents effective expression and communication in English.
Overthinking tends to happen all the time. It's about what you're going to practice, how you're going to learn English. It's about whether or not you're going to speak and how you're going to speak and what you're going to say and how you're going to say something and what words to choose and what tense to choose. And after speaking, it's about playing the conversation in your head again and again and again, thinking whether or not you did well. It's that idea of being a perfectionist and always trying to get it right, which stops you from actually expressing yourself and communicating.
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