Wired (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wiredferret) wrote in amblypygid, |
My personal definition of overthinking involves my tendency toward decision paralysis. If I keep analyzing and processing and gathering data, and analyzing the new data and....
then I end up not making a decision, missing the crucial time when all of this analysis would have come into play.
Not making a decision is a decision.
A classic example of me overthinking has to do with trying to get a document exactly, precisely right. I try to cover all the bases, write up each scenario, document the exceptions, research the edge cases. It takes forever. In the meantime, I have not met the need of the 80 percent of the people who need the good-enough 80% document. While I have been trying to build this elaborate thing, I have allowed the core need to go unmet.
then I end up not making a decision, missing the crucial time when all of this analysis would have come into play.
Not making a decision is a decision.
A classic example of me overthinking has to do with trying to get a document exactly, precisely right. I try to cover all the bases, write up each scenario, document the exceptions, research the edge cases. It takes forever. In the meantime, I have not met the need of the 80 percent of the people who need the good-enough 80% document. While I have been trying to build this elaborate thing, I have allowed the core need to go unmet.
