Why overthinking is important in your daily life

Filippo Ravedoni
Jul 29, 2017 · 2 min read

WAIT WHAT? Yeah you heard right, overthinking is important.

I’m not trying to convince you that being paranoid is a good think and not even that you should be thinking 24/7 about your problems.

I’m telling you that thinking about your life and your actions is important if you wanna achieve your goals and live a happy life.

We live in the digital era where all our attention is devoted to the media and dumb stuff. Think about how much time do you waste every single day!

Now… sit down a second an make a commintment to think 10 sec about your daily actions.


Everything valuable comes always from experience and here is mine.

Today I went to Trieste to look for an apartment, I initially contacted some guys over Facebook and decided which ones would fit me better. I didn’t really have much options, actually I only had one, the second choice was too expensive. Anyway I didn’t think about it and I took the first train of day so I could see the apartment and decide if it is worth it to rent it or not. Short story long I fucked it up.

I wasted my all day because I didn’t think about my actions for more then 10 seconds.

The guy I spoke with hadn’t been clear about the apartment so we weren’t able to make a deal and close. Actually I spent only 10 minutes talking with him and I had nothing to do for three straight hours. Guess what? I could have scheduled a few more appointements for the day to fill the day and don’t waist it all.

Little detail the travel was 2.5 hours, one way!


Now you see how overthinking about your daily actions can save you time and effort. Everyday we fuck something up, what if for 1o seconds after we wake up we just go through our day and see if it makes sense what we are going to do.

Overthink your day !

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