Overthinkers Anonymous Pillows

"I just get a little tense before everything."

"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...

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

"Is all this confusion and complexity necessary?"

No Immediate Danger

"The overthinker"

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

That party went well.

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

Technique #54 airlines are adopting for handling excessive carry on luggage.

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

"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"

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

You have reached the end of your brain...

"The chairman said he wanted to see you when you got out of hospital."

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

Concern Chart

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

The Thinker and The Reactor.

"You're overthinking this."

"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."

'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..."

"I'm not sure she really liked our gift. She used just two exclamation points after 'Thanks'."