20 Sentences to Stop Overthinking by Nir Eyal - Chris Williamson
- I don't need certainty to act.
- If it's reversible, I decide fast.
- I choose one next step, not ten.
- I don't solve feelings; I surf them.
- My thoughts are not instructions.
- Action creates clarity, not thought.
- I write it down so my brain can rest.
- I'm allowed to move with partial info.
- I give myself a deadline, then choose.
- I ask, "What's the next visible action?"
- I schedule thinking so that I don't spiral.
- I trade rumination for one small experiment.
- I let future-me correct, not present-me freeze.
- I'm aiming for progress, not the perfect plan.
- I ask, "What would this look like if it were easy?"
- I accept that some questions stay open while I move.
- I notice loops and ask, Is this helping or just hindering?"
- I'm the kind of person who stops rehearsing and starts doing.
- If it won't matter in 5 years, it doesn't get this much brainspace.
- I'd rather be roughly right in motion than stuck "perfecting" ideas.