The Consequences of Overthinking and Overanalyzing

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Overanalyzing our emotions leads to chronic indecisiveness, inability to focus, and a failure to see the bigger picture. This can cause social anxiety and make decision-making harder. While we worry about others' reactions, spending too much time in our own thoughts prevents us from gaining perspective. It's important to realize that not everyone cares or matters as much as we think. Awareness of this spectrum is crucial.

This is a question I have been asking myself a lot recently as someone who is VERY invested in the self-help space. Have we reached a point where we are too aware of our problems, faults, thoughts, actions and behaviours? Self awareness can free us from so many mental restrictions, it allows us to make better decisions, be a better friend, a better person, invest in our dreams and values. But at some point, we can reach a stage where we are too invested in self-reflection and introspection that it interrupts our enjoyment of the moment, can isolate us or even result in obsessive overthinking and rumination. In this episode we explore what it means to be self-aware and how online self help content might be causing us more harm than good. Listen now.

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