Overthinking – Art of creating problems that didn’t exist in the first place.

I wanted to do a job that I enjoy. We all do. But the challenge is figuring out what I enjoy. We are faced multitude of choices every day. The part I struggle when faced with a choice. What I enjoy ? Or Will it give me the satisfaction in long term ? Hard choices in life appear simple in its face value. Should I take the job offer ? Should I invest in this ? Any problem if I sign this contract ? The hard part is to envision how they will play out in long term. Lot of our decisions are based on how you see the event vs what the event is. When faced with hard choices, the majority of us deliberate or do one of these,

• We postpone, giving ourselves time to think
• We dig in a lot to see if we miss any details and to avoid a bad decision
• Second-Guessing ourselves
• Drop the thing, on which the decision is needed
• To get Anxious about how others perceive my decision
• We have wounds from our past mistakes, and apply that to current context and hesitate.

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, there are 2 systems of mental processing. System 1 is fast track. System 2 is Slow Track. Fast track is instinctive and slow system is deliberate. You take your time to weigh in. People who are successful use System 2 in