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🌀 Stop Overthinking Practice

A small crocheted penguin watching a tangled ball of yarn become a calm path
The Book

I read a book called Stop Overthinking Practice.
It was written by Joseph Nguyen. (The English original is Don't Believe Everything You Think.)
It sold 700,000 copies in the United States and was published in 33 countries.

Just The Title

The content matches the title: do not overthink.

One Sentence

The sentence that hit me the most in the book was this.
It was placed there as a quote.

The Quote

“I have missed happiness many times because I thought and thought, but I have never become happy because I thought and thought.”

All Of Me

When I read it, I had nothing but things that fit me.

Timing Passed

When I look back at my life, I have far more times when timing passed while I was thinking than times when things went well because I thought.

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Think
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Timing passes
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Same place
Where It Helps

I think thinking helps only in areas where there is an answer, like design and calculation.

Round And Round

If you keep thinking in areas with no answer, you do not get more material.
You only go around and around in the same place.

No Facts Here

As philosophers often say, this is an area where facts do not exist, so a correct answer cannot come out.

The cover of the Japanese edition of Stop Overthinking Practice
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Stop Overthinking Practice
Joseph Nguyen
Japanese edition: Mari Yajima
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