Why we overcomplicate things

We often spend our days doing everything but that difficult thing we're dreading to do.

This happens because we're trying to protect ourselves from uncertainty. We don’t want to feel like we don’t know what we’re doing, to look stupid or to to feel overwhelmed.

• We spend too much time outside the present moment. 
• According to a Harvard study, we spend almost 50% of the time we're awake, not thinking about what we're doing. We either ruminate about things that happened in the past or we worry about things that yet have to come.
• This i...

• Projection bias can occur because we don’t realize how much exogenous factors — things that happen outside of our control — can influence our decision-making.
• Overestimating impact. When we are faced with significant life events, lik...