An exercise in overthinking

27.7.11

Before seeing Modest Mouse on Monday (25.07) night we had dinner at Guzman y Gomez in Newtown and it was floated that thinking and worrying about and planning for every possible worst-case scenario might not necessarily be considered "overthinking" but just being a "very concerned" person.

I have come to the conclusion that overthinking might be when you think about an issue so much that you reduce things down to facts, labels, general concepts etc and you end up coming to a conclusion that is incongruous with the initial principles of that issue or your initial fears you harboured concerning that issue.

I can't think of a good example right now. Pretty shreepy. And, adhering to my earlier resolution to sleep more, I shall.