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On the Internet, some of the most common anxiety-related headlines relate to overthinking, and generally how to stop it. “How do I stop overthinking?” is such a commonly asked question on the Internet because it is a problem so many people, even those around me deal with. Thinking too much is not associated with being a good thing because our thoughts often torture us with negativity. Maybe you feel tortured by overthinking, and even that statement caused you to start thinking…
“If only I stopped thinking so much, I could live a normal life,”
“If only I stopped thinking so much, I could be normal.”
“If only I stopped thinking so much, every day wouldn’t be a waking hell,” I told myself.
I looked at my podcast stats, and true enough, the episode with the most listens was well, about how to stop overthinking. Like what I mentioned in the podcast trailer, I’m not an expert on psychology. I’m not even an overthinker. I’m just someone who loves to research and share what I learn in summaries. At that point when reading on overthinking, the majority of articles were all about stopping it. But I decided to revisit the topic and found the article that inspired this episode, and it was clear to me that telling you how to do something is certainly going to be harder than teaching you to embrace it.
I read the story of the author, desperately clinging to something, anything that would get himself to stop overthinking and get out of his own head. Being a big overthinker became the source of all his problems.
As many people know, there’s a huge mental component to running, and because people would get in their own heads and overthink so much, they would never run to their potential or capacity. Even if you weren’t an overthinking, surely, you would know that even for some things that are meant to be natural, such as social interactions, overthinkers would always stay fixated on the right thing to say, and the right non-verbal cues, that they may seem nervous and unconfident.
However, especially if you were an overthinker, you might want to pay close attention. What if you could turn overthinking into a strength, rather than a debilitating defect?
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