Overthinking

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” — Simone Weil

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” ― Robin Sharma

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality” — Seneca

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

人最大的限制是自己的想像力—折磨我們的恐懼，通常都是來自對於事情的「想像」，而不是「真實」的，很多時候我們只是被自己的一些想法給「綑綁」住而已

We often worry a lot in the head throughout our life time, but most of the things that we internally panic about never actually happened.
Usually our fears/worries are based on “what might happen”, not “what is actually happening right now”
- Try to remind yourself: “I am safe right now.”

Understand the difference between imagination and rumination

Turtles all the way down — 你永遠找不到問題真正的答案，只會找到另一個更深層的問題 ¹

A surefire way to make a bad situation worse is to continue replaying it in your mind. The damage is done. The only thing that matters now is making the best choice given your current position.

You don’t have a thinking problem—you have an action problem: Overthinking breeds indecision, leading to inaction/underact. Accept the consequences, stay true to your values, and move forward.