OVERTHINKING OLYMPICS: Why your brain won't shut up (and what to do about it!)
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Together, they unpack why ADHD and anxious minds get stuck in these cycles — from perfectionism and decision fear to safety-seeking and control — and explore the heavy cost of competing: lost time, broken sleep, strained relationships, and missed joy.
But it’s not all doom and gloom. Rich (the reigning champ of underthinking) shares practical ways to break free: reality checks, journaling, movement, tolerating uncertainty, and catching the emotion underneath the spiral. This is a funny, relatable, and surprisingly hopeful conversation for anyone whose brain won’t shut up.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an overthinker? |
| 0:02.5 | If there was an overthinking Olympics, would you be winning gold? |
| 0:06.5 | This week, we are talking about why our brains won't shut up and what we can actually do about it. |
| 0:12.7 | So it's basically like a sport for ADHD and anxious minds. |
| 0:16.3 | If only at burnt calories. |
| 0:17.7 | This is the late bloomer's podcast where we are getting our lives together. |
| 0:22.8 | Dun dun dun, done. Eventually. Did you like my interest? It's usually you that does it eventually. |
| 0:28.8 | We switched and I love it. So, overthinking. So, okay, Olympics, you've gone for the analogy. |
| 0:37.1 | So presumably there's some events. So do you want to |
| 0:39.4 | talk us through what sporting events that you have magically come up with? |
| 0:44.4 | I love how you know my brain so well that you know if it's called the overthinking Olympics. |
| 0:50.3 | I will have come up with overthinking events. and I have. Of course. Without question. |
| 0:55.9 | It's nice to be known. Let's jump into it. The first event is the 3am marathon. Okay. |
| 1:04.1 | Okay. So that is when you are desperately trying to sleep. You know that sleep is really good for you. You might have |
| 1:13.6 | something you're doing early in the morning. And your brain is like, boom, time to run an |
| 1:19.3 | overthinking marathon. You might be trying to solve a huge problem in your life. You might be |
| 1:25.3 | replaying something from the past. You might be coming up |
| 1:27.9 | with business ideas. But effectively, it's like your brain just not allowing you to go to sleep. |
| 1:36.1 | Would physically decorating come under this? Because obviously, what I was sitting there thinking, |
| 1:40.7 | that must be really hard for you. But but also sometimes it's really hard for me |
| 1:46.4 | no no no because that's like doing stuff that's impulsivity okay this is me lying awake in the |
| 1:53.9 | middle of the night desperate to get to sleep but my brain's not having any of it and I'm like |
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