Hi, I generally and regularly suffer from a form of mental paralysis caused by overthinking nearly everything.
You might think I'm joking, but I'm not. Overthinking and indecision are not a fun state of mind.
If the topic or ideas or decisions were just abstract and/or hypothetical, it might be fine for me to overthink those kinds of things.
But NO!
My mind overthinks some of the most mundane minutiae of my daily existence and causes me to either be indecisive about absurdly trivial things or to make rushed decisions about more or less important things, at the EXTREMELY last second, because I was overthinking something related or unrelated until some outside force gently or somewhat forcefully pushes me to make a choice.
With most things that ends up being a sufficiently effective way to make choices since most choices are not life or death kinds of things.
But occasionally, I really miss out on making the smarter decision because I was too busy thinking of all the other possible pathways or consequences connected to a specific choice. I'm even overthinking about whether or not I actually REALLY overthink things and if I really should even write this post about how much I overthink things. hahaha
I have been trying to tell my brain to just shut up more and then just make a quicker decision even if it's not the "perfect" or "best" choice that MIGHT be possible in any given situation.
That does work sometimes and for me that is a small form of progress over how utterly paralyzed my mind has been too often in the past. Becoming too mentally frozen and not making a choice at all, has really hurt me a few (thousand) times.
I hope this short essay wasn't too boring, too under-thought, or too overthought for you all to read and if it was, I will think about how I will respond to your responses only if you actually respond negatively. Otherwise, I will assume you totally enjoyed my ramblings. hahahaha :)
Feel free to share what helps you to make better choices in timely and expedient ways and then I will overthink whether or not I can integrate your ideas into my faulty brain/life and whether or not I will share your ideas with others also. ;) Take it easy and.....
Have a wonderful and decisive day!
Nate @lundgreenman
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Yeah, I feel ya. I experience this all the time! It makes me think of the idea of extremes and how that it generally is frowned upon. I can't help but to see value in extremes. It's when we push concepts and actual physical things to their limit in that we understand their value and how they work right? ;)
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The tricky thing with extremes is that they can be as unpredictable as any moderate thing, even though they seem to feel like the clearly "right" or "wrong" choice based on what the available information reveals at a given time. In my opinion and generally supported by current science, reality is paradoxically both simple and complex simultaneously. (depends on what level of physics/interactions/time/energy that is being observed or studied)
Every moment in time resets the variables that can, could or actually do lead to one outcome or another. Generally speaking, experiences are better teachers than concepts alone. Also, understanding the (more or less) value of something doesn't mean we will actually value it consistently or proportionally. Our brains are so flawed at perceiving reality accurately that we can and do reject the more valuable options in life just because of glitches in our memories or control of timing or emotional/chemical fluctuations happening on a biological (involuntary) level.
Science does make some advances when people push limits but it can also lead to unintended consequences including failures or even death on occasion. I tend to play it safe and let others live on the edge of the dangerous unknowns. I appreciate their risk taking all the more if they actually discover something that benefits humanity.
Granted, as the old saying goes, all things in moderation, even moderation, right? :)
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Very well said; thank you! :) Yes, I can definitely see that there is an increasing risk in pushing extremes. I would agree as experiences are better than concepts, but I have yet to figure out as to why. After all, would we not need concepts, at least to a reasonably understood degree, in order to help interpret and assimilate those experiences? Which in turn would assist in the development and refining of older and newly conceived concepts?
Yeah, I would tend to agree in that no matter how much humanity extends its parameters of cognition, that perception and experience is always muted altered to some degree.
In many ways I feel torn with wanting to live in those two modes of being. One part of me wants to play it safe..and the other wants to push things in the pursuit of once achieving that goal, I can then completely understand and appreciate it you know?
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Thank you for your thoughts and questions to ponder. I suppose the thing to do is to embrace the paradox rather than to let it discourage us. Also, I agree and appreciate that life tends to be more enjoyable with the variety of experiences we can create or observe passively as we all wrestle between choosing more safety and/or more danger. Isn't life grand sometimes? :)
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