Welcome to today's episode of The Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have

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episodes four times a week so that you can learn who you are, become better,

improve yourself so that you can improve your life. So if that's what you want to do,

hit that subscribe button, join us along this way. Today, I'm going to be talking about how to

stop overthinking. Because if you overthink everything, it's not because you love stress.

It's because your brain is running old

programs of the past. And it doesn't trust that you can handle what happens if something goes wrong.

And so today, I want to break down why all of this happens and then how to actually retrain

your brain so that you can stop overthinking.

Because if you don't understand this, you'll spend your entire life living in your head instead of

living in your life. And so if you overthink everything, this episode can change your life.

Okay, so if you're the type of person who over thinks, if you replay everything

in your head, your conversations in your head that you had in the past, you're constantly looking

for what could go wrong. If you think about every possible outcome before you make a move,

I want you understand you weren't born that way. That's not who you are naturally. Let that land for a second. Like,

that's not who you are naturally. You became that way because of the environment that you grew up in.

There's really only two reasons why somebody overthinks so much. And I'm going to dive into those

two reasons today as we go through it. Okay? The first thing that you really need to understand

when we talk about overthinking is overthinking is a protection mechanism. Your brain is not

just trying to protect you from danger, but it's trying to protect you from every possible

outcome so that you can stay safe. It's trying to protect you from unpredictability. There's research that's

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