Thinking is a double-edged sword. It can help you. But it can also destroy you. The outcome depends on how you use your thoughts. - <Think Straight>
Are you the one that can’t stop your brain racing especially when you should sleep. You can’t stop thinking about the incident happen 5 minutes ago and struggle if you doing it right.
But this is a super power!
Brain exercise and condition rehearsal
Most of the time when you can’t stop thinking, your brain is trying to rehearsal what had happened, or what might happen soon. In a long run, you will notice you started to be able to handle an impromptu questions or challenges easily, because you have been rehearsal in your brain for hundred times.Information dots connect
We use to forgotten something after listen to sharing from others. However when you spend your time thought about those information, you started to group these info into different dots, and they will park inside your brain and they appears as individual dots. UNTIL you finally get a key information that link those dots together! Everything become make sense. If you are a can’t-stop-thinking person, I assure you have a lot of “AHA!” moment, the moment that you successfully make few information dots connected.But it’s exhausted…
Thinking can be exhausted, especially when it occupied during your sleep hours, most of the time you might get excited and worst you will get up to proof your thoughts.Trust that you can do better tomorrow in the morning
Things never come to end, task list never stop. So, give yourself the time to rest well and you are good to play/proof your thoughts the next day in the morning, the next 2 days morning, the everyday morning. Progress takes time, your health too.Always look for the fact
Anything that imagine in our brain are just imagination at the most positive or negative situation according to your existing brain knowledgebase. So you must always research and proof it before you jump into conclusion of your imaginations.Do not let overthinking control you
You are the only one that can get your brain shutup. Spend time to understand the best habit that can make yourself an inner peace. eg. I will always able to sleep on time only if I stop touching my phone and read book the 1 hour before the target sleeping time.Improve the quality of your thoughts, so you improve the quality of your actions. - <Think Straight>
The recommended reading
by Darius Foroux
is a self-help book that might help you clear most of your curiosity about your ability of overthinking. A very comprehensive and adaptable sharing. This book for sure will clear most of the doubts.
Valuable quotes from the readings
- “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” ― William James
- If we want to think straight at all times, we must stay grounded, look at facts, listen to other people’s perspectives, and only then draw practical conclusions.
- The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts.
- If you want the dots to connect in the future, you have to make sure you form dots in your brain. The only way you form dots is by learning, doing, making mistakes, reflecting, or anything you can do to feed your brain with the input it needs to give you the output you want.
- Don’t bother with convincing people with different opinions of the “truth.” It’s just not a practical thing to do. Save your energy for other, more useful things.
- Why are we even afraid that people think we’re stupid?
- Instead of following my first thought, I say, “Please give me a day or two to think about it.” That’s all you need.
- Knowing yourself is step one. Step two is acting on that knowledge.
- When thinking is not a priority, make it one.
- Remember: Money is a replaceable resource. When you’re out of it, you can earn it back. You can’t say the same for time. Don’t spend too much time thinking about money.
- You’ll find that the moments you’re not thinking are just as important as the times you are actively thinking.
- It’s not this or that in life. You can have this and that.
- Improve the quality of your thoughts, so you improve the quality of your actions.
- you don’t regret what you did in life, you regret what you didn’t do.
- Thinking is a double-edged sword. It can help you. But it can also destroy you. The outcome depends on how you use your thoughts.