“Overthinking is become the new way of thinking.” - Soumanna Ammar #overthinking

Overthinking is becoming the new way of thinking.

So social media has played a very great role in that because we tend to also compare ourselves with everyone else. So we start to overthink like what we're doing right, what we're doing wrong. There's like a competitiveness in the way that we do things, so we lose track of purpose. I think sometimes it's also like healthy because that also keeps you a little bit on track with being warned about things as they come along. But when it's becoming like an obsessive part of your life, it becomes like— as long as you're aware that it's not serving you, this is the right time to basically reflect on it. But it's just the whole comparison of with other people. This is one part. And the other part is because we have a lot of beliefs that have been embedded in us as we grew in our life, right? So there are some beliefs that are disempowering, that are limiting, and then we tend to overthink about them. So there is also that aspect of overthinking. I kind of catch myself sometimes when I'm overthinking about something. This means like I've