EP 200: The Perils of Overthinking
b'We all have a great tendency to overthink things. \\n\\nAnd the most common way we do this is imagining the worst case scenario. \\n\\nThe problem is that we all are very creative in this sense and most of the time we come up with very vivid and scary images of potential outcomes. \\n\\nAnd as soon as fear gets involved, we trigger the stress response in our bodies. \\n\\nAnd as soon as we trigger the stress response in our bodies, we optimize ourselves for survival and we literally shut down many of our resources for creatively solving the problem with which we are dealing.'