The surprising disinhibition technique to stop overthinking
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How do you define
How do you define overthinking?
A torrent of negative thought and associated emotion sparked by relatively innocuous triggers.
Much of it is framed by what-if scenarios that give the imagination plenty of room to run free in the wilderness of negativity.
Intuition works like a
Intuition works like a mental pattern matching game.
It analyzes situations quickly with extant knowledge and evident context and offers a way forward quickly.
The advantage?
Decision-making is based on existing knowledge and experience that isn’t bogged down by time-intensive data research or analysis.
Try a moment of
Try a moment of disinhibition.
Take a decision or two and consider them solely on intuition instead of data-based analysis.
Follow this by a couple of other decisions where you lean on data. Then, compare the two.
How did the decisions match up? What were the consequences?
So how do we
So how do we get past this and function at even-keel. As The Harvard Business Review shared in a 2021 article:
- Avoid perfectionism.
- Reframe problems as opportunities.
- Build healthy daily routines.
- Create constraints to keep your imagination from running wild.
As with any job
As with any job of complex responsibilities, intuition-based decision-making can’t rule all the time.
Use it in moderation, and where you feel it’s appropriate.
But for those at the top who struggle with overthinking and over-analysis, it’s worth carving out time to try a moment of disinhibition to see how things unfold.
One of the solutions
One of the solutions turns away from data-based decision-making.
It taps into something far more nebulous: Trust your gut.
We shy away from this approach because it seems wholly unscientific — and therefore, dangerous.