Nick Trenton

Overthinking is excessively harmful mental activity,

Overthinking Isn’t About Overthinking

Communicate your needs and feelings directly, rather than suffering in silence.

When you genuinely feel that you have as much right to speak as anyone else, then you may feel more confident

our brains help us solve problems and understand things more clearly—but overthinking does the opposite.

What’s important to learn is how to determine exactly which 20% needs the most attention, as well as how you can make any effort or input beyond that more efficient.

“Who am I? And what do I really want out of this life?”

You might simply refuse to engage in depressing thoughts, and deliberately practice being a person who is more optimistic

But the truth is that overthinking often doesn’t lead anywhere, because the overthinker gets trapped in the cycle of analyzing, rejecting, and reconsidering different possibilities. It’s like scratching an itch that just won’t go away.

constant focus on the present moment