13: Obsessing over details

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 13 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I tell a story about obsessing over sliced vs. non-sliced challah bread. Will I ruin dinner? Or will everything be fine? The suspense is riveting.

Then I cleverly segue into decision-making: HSPs analyze details in an effort to make good decisions, but sometimes this can turn into over-analysis, and analysis paralysis. The trick is to catch yourself doing this, and ask yourself, "If I'm wrong, what's the worst that can happen?"

(And relax: there will be no "challah" and "holla" puns in this episode. Promise.)

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5

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0:00.0	This is the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely.
0:11.3	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:18.0	What's up, people? I'm your host, Kelly, and thanks so much for tuning in and making this podcast one of the top 100 podcasts in all of iTunes.
0:28.4	That's just incredible. I get emails, blog comments, and podcast reviews every day saying how learning about high sensitivity changes the way people feel about
0:38.8	themselves. That's my goal with this podcast to try to spread information about high sensitivity
0:43.8	so it can help others like it helped me. I do want to mention that while this podcast is about
0:49.2	HSPs, it does sometimes cross into being about introverts. Most HSPs are introverts, including me,
0:56.4	but about 30% of HSPs are extroverts. I'd like to read two excerpts from some podcast reviews.
1:03.8	One is from J.U.L.0128, who said, it's so good to feel understood and not so alone in the way I experienced the world.
1:13.2	Lady JSR-74 said, I'm still learning things about high sensitivity, but I'm so glad I'm not
1:19.4	crazy and I'm not the only one. Thank you for a sense of normalcy. You're very welcome and thanks
1:25.5	so much for tuning in. Today's episode is about obsessing over
1:30.1	details and hating making mistakes or forgetting things. And like I so often do, I'm going to
1:36.5	start with a story. And I think this really illustrates the difference between a highly
1:41.4	sensitive person, me and someone who's not highly
1:44.6	sensitive, my husband, Jim.
1:47.1	You know, it's kind of funny, I talk about the poor guy in almost every episode, yet he really
1:51.8	doesn't care, he doesn't mind.
1:53.8	Good thing he's not highly sensitive, right?
1:56.0	Then it would probably bug him.
1:58.2	We were invited to a Rosh Hashanah dinner at a friend's house, and she told us to bring
2:02.7	two loaves of halah bread. So we went to the Jewish bakery. We asked for Hala, and they told us that
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