Edwin Catmull

I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in my head. I learned that the voice isn't me, and I don't need to keep rethinking events of the past nor overthink plans for the future. This skill has helped me both to focus and to pause before responding to unexpected events.

American Scientist

Fionn Whitehead

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

English Actor

Tom Odell

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

British Musician

Bertie Carvel

I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.

British Actor

Holly Holm

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

American Athlete

Kehlani

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

American Musician

Madison Keys

I try to live in the moment and not overthink things because then you start putting yourself in situations that you don't want to be in pressure-wise.

Nazriya Nazim

When I listen to a script I don't think too deeply, my thought is 'will it excite me to do this?' I don't overthink.

Bruno Mars

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

Mithila Palkar

I don't really overthink my characters. The camera comes on, and I am on.

Indian Actress

Overthink often implies worry or anxiety about making a perfect choice or finding an issue.

Anxiety Link

Using 'overthink' can suggest someone is stuck and unable to decide because they're thinking too much.

Decision Paralysis

The word is often used when a simple matter is made complex by unnecessary thought.

Simple Matters

 Because I'll sit on it, and I'll overthink it, and I'll think about it the day after, and I'll be like, "I should have said something." So for those tough moments where you want to say something that feels like it's contrary to what everybody else is saying but you know you deeply believe it, I say ask yourself three questions.

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 of the animals is much more important than your actual knowledge of the equipment because you've got a manual that you can open up and you've got half a brain in your head you can work out what a piece of equipment does and but without animals you've got to overthink