It's a form of procrastination.It happens when you convince yourself you can't go forward with a decision, because you haven't given it enough thought, done enough research or figured things out to get started.

Analysis paralysis

You need to remove the anxiety and fear of doing the thing you’re avoiding. Then, you need to remove or invert the pleasant feeling you get from stalling:<ul><li>Give yourself small doses of the thing you’re scared of to diminish the fear it generates.</li><li>Punish yourself for failure to act. </li></ul>

Overcoming Emotional Resistance

Spending some time analyzing the possible options is good. But an indefinite amount of time is going to be bad.The way to get past this is to set constraints. If you set these constraints in advance, then you can undermine the rational part of your mind from using them as a justification for further procrastination.

Overcoming Rational Excuses

<ul><li>Set a decision deadline (for doing all the research and thinking) with a default (when the deadline passes, you’re stuck with the default).</li><li>Start blindly, change later. Give yourself a default, and force yourself to work on it for a certain amount of time, before you can go back to research. </li><li>Leave hard choices open-ended.</li></ul>

Setting Constraints

It has the same root cause as all forms of procrastination. It is caused by the desire to avoid something unpleasant: you don’t want to get started, so you start searching for excuses to justify avoiding the unpleasantness.And there really are fears, uncertainties or doubts, which make doing more research an attractive excuse.

Why analysis paralysis happens

You have to manage 2 realities: <ul><li>Rationalization: Deal with your rationalization that you need more time to think, plan and research by preventing this excuse from working.</li><li>Underlying fear: Even if you convince yourself that you are engaging in procrastination and your paralysis is unhelpful, that may not stop you from doing it. Now you need to figure out how to get past it.</li></ul>

Dealing with analysis paralysis

You know you should really get started but you can't. What if you make the wrong choice? What if you start it out the wrong way, and it all gets ruined? You start to feel that weight in your stomach, that tension in your chest, as you feel a little panic about the idea of going forward.

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