Thinking too Much as a Cause of Problems Instead of the Solution to Them
Yeah – I’ve been told I think too much at times… but coming from a family of intellectuals, thinking was the solution most problems. Research, analysis, conclusion, then action was the way to go in not just school but in life as well. And – to stop thinking was to live in some sort of stupid existence… a blind, unobserving and unexamined life.
So – any problem I had, I would attack it in my favorite way… to think it through, devise a plan, then take action. But thinking can cause as many problems as it solves at times. The inner critic, for example, can create a lot of problems. Same with the desire to analyze people to death instead of just letting them ‘be’. Same with torturing yourself with different potential future outcomes. All thinking. It is funny that the thinking I thought was clarifying my life was actually obscuring it.
So… if you’re still reading this – you were right.
Have you read BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell yet?
Not yet but it is on my shelf
. Definitely seems on-topic…