The Cost of Thinking Too Much
For the days when “being thorough” just means nothing gets done.
Overthinking has great PR.
It dresses up as “being prepared”, but mostly keeps us circling the runway.
In office life it looks like this: rewriting the subject line, nudging bullet points around in slides, booking another “quick sync”, or renaming files to final_final_v7.pptx.
At home it’s 20 minutes of Netflix scroll, 5 tabs of a product reviews, toggling between Swiggy/Zomato/Uber Eats to save a few rupees, or drafting a WhatsApp for the friends group three times.
Feels productive. Isn’t ?
Not all of us are overthinkers. But if you are, even just on Mondays—this will help.
This week’s edition is a gentle interruption. Not a pep talk. A prompt to move one thought into the real world.
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That’s it for this week.
Manoj
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