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A founder describes overthinking as creating problems that weren't even there. The speaker suggests noticing when you're imagining challenges that haven't happened yet, and using that definition to stop yourself.
A founder describes overthinking as creating problems that weren't even there. The speaker suggests noticing when you're imagining challenges that haven't happened yet, and using that definition to stop yourself.
I was discussing inactivity and overthinking with a founder today. And I said to him, overthinking is the art of creating problems that weren't even there. And it kind of stopped him in his tracks because he said, that's so true. I'm essentially sitting around pontificating all these things that I need to do or all these things that are problems, but they haven't materialized yet. So if you catch yourself overthinking, if you catch yourself spending a lot of time ruminating over things that you worry about that aren't there, Remind yourself that overthinking is the art of creating problems that aren't even here.
