Overconfidence Critique Gifts

"Don't worry, I've performed this procedure hundreds of times."

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

That party went well.

No Immediate Danger

"Well, if you're still awake when the time changes, you'll lose an hour of overthinking everything, too."

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

'If we can't stand up to the insurance lobby, why would the public think we can stand up against the Taliban?'

"If I go to the party alone, will I be able to leave when I want? But then, there's always the possibility that I will get stuck talking to someone. I can't shake the problem is me. What if no one else likes me? I'm the only one being critical... The issue is I'm not enough and it's really so huge." "The over thinker"

"My problem is I obsess over whether I worry enough."

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

A man imagines he looks like a farmer on a tractor on a ride-on mower and

"Wake up, baby. I just realized how my insomnia is all your fault."

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

'I'm going to be a lot more decisive from now on. Well... maybe not a lot more, but at least a little more.'

Think - But not too much.

Trump dries his hair with hot air

"Right foot, left foot, inhale, exhale, right foot..."

'Pretty confident, huh?'

"I've never seen anyone actually implode before."

"I forgot to put bay leaf in the red beans and no one even noticed."

"I attended a leadership seminar. They learnt a lot from me."

"Be the ball. Be the pins. Be the lane. Be the shoes."

Magic Trick

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"Yeah, I'm a self-made man. I lied on all my resumes and bluffed my way to the top."

"Corner pocket, I think, but let’s see what Intrade says."

Maximum Insecurity Prison

Self-Help: 2015

"Bob believes that most of his deeply held opinions are the result of 'extensive research," but I sort of suspect they're just the result of prompts suggested by the Youtube algorithm."

"I can tell you exactly what he was compensating for."

"That's a big if."

How To Maximise Your Anxiety

"...and will to the best of my ability, which is terrific ability, by the way. Everyone agrees, I have fantastic ability. So there's no problem with my ability, believe me..."

"His dying words to me were either 'Do less work' or 'Lose the jerk'."