Overthinking due to low self-esteem

[okidoke]

This. You see, one overthinks precisely because one doesn't know what to do, how to proceed etc., but in order to know what to do and how to proceed, one must think, because the answer to this doesn't come without thinking. This shows that thinking in itself is not the problem, it's thinking the wrong way that is. This might seem trivial (it is to me, at least), but apparently not everybody has an instantaneous comprehension of this truth as you'd expect.

There’s thinking and then there’s thiiiiiiiiiiiiking. More often than not we already know things we can, should, must do, but we sit there stuck over thinking, over postulating, over analysing the situation to death. Too often people are throwing up “what if” after “what if” because they’re scared to commit to an action due to possible outcomes that probably won’t even happen.