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The Trap of Overthinking

The Trap of Overthinking

Overthinking becomes an endless cycle of thinking through options, researching it, and through the research finding even more things to think about. 

The uncertainty in this kind of thinking is what keeps us stuck in indecision.

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Sometimes the most important life lessons are the ones we end up learning the hard way.

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