How to Stop the Cycle of Overthinking | Ep 101

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Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

“A lot of people actually just don't have the skill of managing how they think.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares with us strategies for navigating through the stressful situations of overthinking, anxiety, and fear of imperfection are discussed. She delves into the idea of 'unproductive thinking' and provides tools to overcome this. She also explores the concept of productive distraction as a helpful tool to break out from the cycle of overthinking.

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Timestamps:

(0:40) - Understanding overthinking

(1:32) - The framework for overcoming overwhelm

(2:55) - The power of language in overthinking

(3:56) - Seeking guidance to gain clarity

(4:28) - Embracing imperfection

(5:22) - Productive distraction: A tool against overthinking

(6:13) - The role of time in overthinking

(6:27) - The brain's tendency to create problems

(7:27) - Overthinking as a lack of skill in managing thoughts

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0:00.0	What I repeat to myself in those situations is do it wrong.
0:04.1	Do it imperfectly.
0:05.7	Because what I've realized is that when the goal is to be perfect,
0:09.4	it increases our anxiety about the situation,
0:11.9	and then actually the outcomes tend to be worse.
0:19.2	How do you create an unshakable business?
0:21.6	I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.
0:24.6	Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.
0:27.6	In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses
0:30.6	and helping our portfolio companies do the same.
0:33.6	Buckle up and let's build.
0:40.2	If you ever find yourself overthinking, anxious, stressed, then in this, what I want to do is share with you how to overcome that and the frameworks that help you break that cycle for good.
0:50.3	Overtinking is really unproductive thinking.
0:52.6	Sometimes overthinking can be good it can help us in
0:54.9	situations it can help us think through really long-term decisions that have a long tail for example
0:59.8	if you want to start a business picking what industry are you going to serve what product are you going to
1:05.4	sell that warrants a lot of thinking and i think that that would be an appropriate time to
1:09.8	overthink whereas on the other side a situation that wouldn't think that that would be an appropriate time to overthink. Whereas on the
1:11.4	other side, a situation that wouldn't warrant overthinking would be something like the dress you're
1:15.9	going to wear to a date, what diet you're going to go on to lose weight. An unmanaged mind will
1:20.6	constantly overthink. To learn what to do instead of overthinking is a skill. Now we just have to learn
1:26.4	in what situations does it work and in
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