Overthinker's Delight Mugs

Maximum Insecurity Prison

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

They hated me.

"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...

That party went well.

"Is all this confusion and complexity necessary?"

No Immediate Danger

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

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

"The overthinker"

"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.'

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

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

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"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."

"I know it's only been a little while since we've been allowed to mingle again but I'm already getting really tired of people."

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

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

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

"You're overthinking this."

The Thinker and The Reactor.

Concern Chart

"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

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

Interview anxiety