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Overthinking, Decisions, and Trusting Yourself - Coggle Diagram
Overthinking, Decisions, and Trusting Yourself
Personal Experience
Make a decision
Initially feel good about it
Keep thinking about it
Start questioning myself
Second-guess the decision
Rumination
Repeating the same thoughts
Decisions start feeling harder
Less confidence
More thinking can create more uncertainty
Attention
What I'm focused on affects what I notice
Doubt draws my attention toward problems
Start looking for reasons I could be wrong
Confirmation Bias
Notice information supporting existing doubts
Worries can reinforce themselves
Can make one side of the decision feel bigger than it originally did
Thinking vs. Overthinking
Thinking something through can be useful
More thinking isn't always better
When does useful thinking turn into overthinking?
Knowing when to stop
Trusting Yourself
Trusting my judgment
Accepting that complete certainty isn't always possible
“Trust yourself. Keep it simple.”
Moving forward instead of reopening the decision
Universal Connection
A lot of people second-guess themselves
Why people can become less confident after thinking more
Learning to recognize when thought becomes rumination