S11 EP15: The Overthinking Detox You Need Again
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Are you an overthinker? Do you live in the now or the future? (We are going to the past to replay this episode because it's worth hearing again!) What we are talking about today is analysis paralysis: the inability to act because you’ve overthought something. Overthinking can lead to…absolutely nothing, when it comes to action. It’s a form of self-sabotage. In this episode we help you identify your spiraling thoughts, because your brain is not always serving you and has been wired to believe that complex solutions are “superior” to simple ones.
Listen for techniques and strategies on how to respond when your brain says, it can’t be that simple! Because sometimes it IS that simple. Leave with action items to put in place today when your mind has gone in a thousand different directions. We’re here to pull you out of the quicksand. This episode is just what you need, to stop overcomplicating and start doing.
(00:00:00) Welcome and a look at self sabotage
(00:09:30) A close to home example of overcomplicating as a form of self sabotage
(00:17:04) What are you afraid of? What the fear of failure is capable of
(00:22:22) Complexity bias: what your brain is designed to believe
(00:24:30) Chemicals in your brain associated with overcomplicating and the stress response explained
(00:27:27) Looking for and practicing solutions is building new pathways for your brain
(00:29:16) The neural networks in your brain: the default mode network and the direct experience network
(00:34:14) Overcomplicating as a safety blanket and using it so you don’t have to act
(00:39:33) Action items, little tricks to put into place today when you start to overthink
(00:43:24) How a curiosity mindset and not judgement can lead you to action
(00:45:35) What to ask yourself, how to categorize your thoughts.
(00:47:45) The “best way” is irrelevant
(00:51:45) Personal growth, we are all a work in progress and what is a win
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| 0:00.0 | The best way is irrelevant. |
| 0:02.2 | I know a lot of our like, we're overthinkers are like, well, I'm just going to find the best, |
| 0:06.9 | the most efficient, the least hilly. |
| 0:08.8 | The best way that I can succeed here is where your mind is at. |
| 0:13.7 | And yes, that serves you in other ways. |
| 0:16.0 | But the best way to do a thing is to just do it. |
| 0:19.7 | Ideal conditions are not going to present themselves that often. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, hi guys. I'm Rachel and it is an amazing week to be alive. |
| 0:40.4 | It is amazing week to be alive. |
| 0:42.7 | But we do have, you know, an uplifting episode for you guys today. |
| 0:48.0 | I think we do. |
| 0:49.1 | I think it's really, I think it's just the push you need. |
| 0:53.2 | I think it's motivational. And I think it also will, |
| 0:58.7 | you know, as a lot of our episodes do, make you double back and be like, hey, is this working for me? |
| 1:04.5 | Because sometimes, you know, it is easy to get in a rut and just kind of, um, not look at your behaviors with a microscope |
| 1:13.5 | and just kind of accept them as who you are. And, um, and it might not be working great for you. And it, |
| 1:21.3 | it, it doesn't need to just be who you are because like, you know, we're freaking, you know, |
| 1:26.4 | I really love to look at behaviors that are |
| 1:29.5 | quote unquote, um, who just who you are almost almost talked over my whole other computer |
| 1:36.1 | trying to get my air bunnies up. Um, but the thing is, is that there, it's one of those things. |
| 1:44.1 | So everything in my mind is a form of balance. So don't mind me. But the thing is, is that there, it's one of those things. |
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