Overthinker's Club Gifts

Thinking and thinking backwards.

They hated me.

'Don't let him in - I don't trust his shoes.'

"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."

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Try thinking about something else."

Four Types of Test-Takers...

Skeptic Tank.

That party went well.

"The overthinker"

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

'Hey! What's the big idea!?!'

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

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

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

'Your parents are way too overprotective.'

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

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

Workaholics anonymous meeting.

"I think he said he wants to buy 'just the one'. You'd better fetch the manager"

You have reached the end of your brain...

"I made a list of all my symptoms. Lost the list. Can't remember any of my symptoms now."

'You look like you have a lot on your mind, Jim!'

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

Concern Chart

'I'm worried about not being worried...'

"You're overthinking this."

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

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

Flowchart of an idea.

Sometimes a Good Excuse to Get off the Telephone is Hard to Find

"The Talmudic umpire It may have been a strike, since it cut the corner of the plate, and yet it was a trifle high, but not really that high, and yet it seemed to curve over the plate..."

Interview anxiety