Overthinking is a conflict of opposing ideas, or if you’re an artist, it’s a conflict of supporting ideas too. When we begin to enjoy living in our minds, overthinking becomes an addiction and ignites on auto-pilot.

It’s like dreaming — we don’t really know how it began — we just find ourselves in the middle of it (yes, thank you, Mr. Nolan, for Inception).

Overthinking and creativity are deeply connected. And, the people who suffer from overthinking, just don’t know it yet, that it’s part of a process, and they need to reframe the meaning of overthinking.

I’ll keep using ideas and thoughts interchangeably as words because careful organization of thoughts gives rise to ideas and abandoned ideas give rise to toxic thoughts.