28 September

Overthinking. Most of us live in our thoughts, that's true. But true thinking is noticing that those thoughts are not us at all, they're ideas that have infected us and won't go away. You don't escape overthinking by 'living', because that's just another idea that infects us. It's quite common, to say 'just live your life, don't overthink it'. Which is asking you to be a cork bobbing along, driven every which way by the current, with no control. Why our culture spends 48 weeks a year wishing it was on holiday, and its workplaces are full of bullshit unthinking jobs. 'Just living' is a surrender to ideas, which will then enslave you.