#analysis paralysis

[deliciouskeys]

Posting about writer's block usually relieves it. Will the same work for analysis paralysis?

Do you ever have a moment where you've written thousands of words and then look back and think "Wait, what the hell am I even trying to convey here? Why do these events/conversations matter?"

Chapter stretching on and I cannot get to the part that I think is the actual crux of the story and I'm not sure what's going on. I personally always aspire to write in a way where no paragraph feels extraneous (reader mileage may vary lol), but did I just write thousands of unnecessary words?

Time to go to sleep, look at it again tomorrow, and remove >50% of it.

#this sounds like I'm writing some high art literary novel lol #and i most certainly am not #but still i think there's some kind of level of quality you should strive for before posting publicly #writing meta #writer's block #analysis paralysis

[selfhealingmoments]

#let it go #move on #moving forward #move forward #move #letting go #present moment #mental abuse #mental health #mental strength #new life #new beginnings #new me #new day #overthinking #analysis paralysis #friedrich nietzsche #nietzshe #abyss #mental growth #therapy #self improvement #self reflection #self help #let go #you got to let it go #motivation #moving on #Fake People #Fake Friends

[adhdxxsdiary]

My toxic trait is spending hours on Amazon finding the right product and the right seller with the right reviews, getting stuck in analysis paralysis, finally choosing one, putting it to the cart and then closing the tab.

#the future me will be handling the payment #adult adhd #my energy is already depleted #actually adhd #adhd problems #adhd #living with adhd #adhd culture #struggles with adhd #adhd thoughts #analysis paralysis #adhd stuff #adults with adhd

[avpdrecovery]

what's currently helping me with catastrophizing/worrying/analysis paralysis

one of the number one things that i just can't stop doing is worrying and catastrophizing and it's been getting in my way for eons now. it's extremely hard to push through, i end up procrastinating, doing things last minute (which means i can't do them as well as i otherwise would), and of course self-sabotaging.

i used to think that i only catastrophize with "big" decisions, but i noticed that it had crept into small day-to-day decisions as well. just coming up with my daily to-do-list was littered with extremely negative "what ifs" and it was agonizing.

so i tried to force myself to not think negatively, to be mindful and say "c'mon that won't happen..." etc... but it didn't help. my "brain" (or part) would just reject that and do it even worse. i also did the thing i read about where you're supposed to think the negative thought to it's conclusion, which should then help you snap out of it. it did not, in fact my brain is capable of coming up with some pretty gruesome stuff, so that just ended up being an exercise in just how bad things can get.

so then i had this idea: how about adding more options to the outcomes? so now i have a new rule, each time my brain chimes in with a catastrophizing thought, it has to add at least 2 or 3 (or more) good outcomes for the same situation. therefore i'm not left with just one horrible scenario, but two others where everything goes fine or even really good. this has helped me get out of analysis paralysis and tackle the things i need to get done, big and small, while still allowing my brain to "contribute" with warnings. it doesn't get to be the only and the loudest voice anymore, it is obliged to hand out the good scenarios it's been keeping from me as well, to balance things out a little. that way the negative outcome suddenly shrinks to it's appropriate size and it just one among many outcomes.

sure, that doesn't mean negative things won't ever happen, it just means that the idea of them having a chance of happening won't keep me from what i want/have to do. this method has really helped me in the last couple of days, i hope it can help others too.

#daily ramblings #mental health #catastrophizing #worrying #obsessive worrying #analysis paralysis #anxiety #anti anxiety

[mollieclimbswalls]

Decision paralysis every morning is my current state.

Set my alarm early so that I can get things done.

Leave the decision of what’s to be done until the morning. Then get overwhelmed by the choice of things that need doing and end up scrolling for 2 hours instead and inevitably feel guilty about not doing anything productive at all.

Meanwhile non of my family are even awake to notice and just get up and go about their day as per.

Good start to the day.

#adhd struggles #living with adhd #adhd problems #adhd brain #actually adhd #adult adhd #autism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #decisionmaking #decision paralysis #analysis paralysis #exercise #workout #climbing #rock climbing

[majorbaby]

one of my frustrations around accessibility becoming a buzzword, and specifically the "buzz phrase" is this accessible? is that this yes-or-no question props up a false binary of accessible vs non accessible.

in reality, accessibility is a spectrum and we should strive to make things more accessible while accepting that peoples' needs are too diverse and mutable to ever achieve a state of total accessibility. if you simply declare a product to be "accessible" without referencing to what standard, then you've lost the battle. disability activists understand this, but some of the confusion happening on tumblr around this shadowy concept of "accessibility" is arising from a lack of understanding of how complex a subject it is.

there are baseline standards and public policy for accessibility to try to at least ensure there's a goal post in place for creators to strive towards, but i don't know that the question of "is this accessible?" is always asking that.

plus those standards need to evolve faster than they are and for that to happen multiple fields of study (medicine, sociology, software engineering) also need to evolve faster than they are and in the mean time i think the best way to workaround these barriers as they arise is to improve how we communicate needs with each other, user to user, user to developer (and vice versa), developer to developer. And understand that there is such a thing as competing needs - which developers really need to do a better job of explaining to people.

#analysis paralysis #this is my brain on cold medication and 1 infuriating meeting

[theoreticallysensible]

Analysis paralysis hits hard for millennials and gen z, I think. Everything seems so complex, especially when we’re all so *aware* of it all the time, that any small thing we have to do day to day seems pointless, and anything bigger seems impossible to do well enough. “But I worry and I give money and I feel useless behind this computer, and that’s just barely scratched the surface of my mind” - as the great sage of our times, Hayley Williams, tells us.

This is especially bad if we have memories of doing wrong in the past. Whether real or imagined, this can be traumatic, and make being absolutely perfect or else doing nothing at all seem like the only option.

But perfection is impossible. We all know this on some level - there’s simply too much complexity to any problem for us to even learn about all of it within our lifetime, let alone understand it, especially since everything is always developing along with us. Some forethought is often necessary to avoid negligence, especially when addressing bigger problems, and we must always learn from our mistakes to heal from them (which can take some time), but at some point action is necessary - to be there for people, to make some difference, to try. Sometimes that’s the really important thing, even if it doesn’t achieve any of what you tried to achieve - you showed that you cared, and you may inspire others to try too, and together you can achieve more than either could alone.

Accepting imperfection is more than just practically useful though. It means also being more compassionate, accepting that just as you can’t achieve perfection, neither can others - and they may even disagree with you! Just like you might sometimes not even be sure what perfection means to you, and it may be that you need to try something to work it out. You can learn from your failures, sometimes you can learn about past failures through making more, and you can learn from other people’s efforts. Thinking that you could know the answers perfectly, that you need to in order to act, makes it hard to learn from action happening right in front of you.

You don’t need a perfect knowledge of psychology or first aid to comfort and care for someone. You don’t need a perfect knowledge of a subject to write and share some ideas about it (to get meta). You don’t need to perfect knowledge of politics, society, and economics to advocate for or act on behalf of a conviction about how the world should be. Thinking that you ever could is pretty arrogant anyway, and it seems silly when confronted head on, but I do think that so much of despair comes from an implicit belief that we should have perfect knowledge before acting.

There was the beginnings of a revolution in France in 1968, and it failed. The Marxist leadership refused to believe that students could be revolutionary. They failed to see the productive effect they were having, that they were already reaching out to others, and so they refused to support them. They thought that conditions had to be perfect for any change to happen, and so they couldn’t learn from the creativity of the students who were already making a better world. If they had, they may have achieved something like what they said they wanted.

Importantly, when it comes to political questions, we don’t need to be aiming to solve the whole world’s problems at once. That’s too big a problem! No one person can do that, and there’s no group capable of doing it that we could align ourselves with. Start small, solve smaller problems in ways that align with your principles. This does immediate good, but also shows other people (and you) that there are other ways of doing things, and people willing to do them. This builds groups that can address bigger things, and provides a space to learn ways of acting that couldn’t have been imagined before people started trying things. “A theory cannot be developed without encountering a wall, and a praxis is needed to break through.” - Gilles Deleuze

Learning is not a project that can be completed, it’s a frame of mind - being open to a world which will always change and people whose capabilities will always surprise you. Accepting that people, including yourself, will always be different from how you want them to be, and accepting and supporting them in their projects anyway, not when they’re perfect, but when they’re headed in the right direction.

#analysis paralysis #philosophy #politics #anxiety #situationism #may 68 #paramore #jacques rancière #communism #marxism #louis althusser #gilles deleuze #climate anxiety #activism

[yoghurt-bimbo]

me, sitting: get up get up get up get up get up

#adhd #analysis paralysis

[adespota-ade]

#analysis paralysis #poetry

[quiltedcottage]

I’d really love to be one of those people that goes to grad school and graduates to work hard in a noble career. The kind of person who naturally earns respect because of their ability to stay disciplined and put in the time to reach lofty goals. I have met these people and I admire them greatly and find it to be one of the most attractive character traits.

And yet. I don’t? Do this? I was headed there at one point. And here we are. Going in circles.

#analysis paralysis #life sometimes feels like you’re on a floaty and paddling with one arm #you’re just going in a circle trying to get somewhere #and like you’re blessed with two arms and still #you just do the same thing over and over and get frustrated that you’re still just doing circles #omg but then some people are born on boats that do most of the work for them!!! #this is a good metaphor #but still gotta own up to the fact that i have two arms and could head somewhere

[girl-star-girl]

-- born sick // in need of an exorcism or whatever they call it these days (@girl-star-girl)

#i feel like that donkey #analysis paralysis #or whatever #prose #poem #draft #nonsense #august #web weaving #this came to me in a dream #mine

[theperplexedpoet]

choosing to be ignorant (in the age of information)

choosing to be ignorant in the information age too many are so content in their own self-imposed cage there's data at the ready let your fingers do the walking the vessel is unsteady does an awful lot of talking and lots of talking awful no critical thinking applied and though such acts are lawful they simply can't be justified choosing to be ignorant in the information age too many are reluctant to live any other way the data is near endless but must be critically consumed too many bear false witness and then it goes viral by noon with confirmation bias analysis paralysis acting like we're the virus reasonably analogous choosing to be ignorant in the information age just willfully complacent and standing up on this stage there's data at the ready let your fingers do the walking but beware of who fed thee always know who's done the talking know where each feed is fed from and look for the strings of bias for some of it is “red rum” and they'll try to slip it by us so you choose ignorance in the age of information I'm not exactly judging weird flex is all I'm sayin' (3/27/23)

#poetry #sociopolitical #bard in the bardo #critical thinking #choosing ignorance #information age #confirmation bias #analysis paralysis

[stylistic-nightmare]

Napalm Death - Analysis Paralysis

#napalm death #analysis paralysis #metal #death metal #music

[bdkinz]

When in doubt, don't overthink

Life is a series of tests. No, not the kind we take in school. The kind in which we have to make a choice and hope that the choice in front of us is the best possible solution in a given situation. At times, it is important to confront our problems with a multi step approach in which we try to imagine the results of several possible outcomes before choosing the “best” approach as we see it. Of…

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#analysis paralysis #doubt #growth #journeying forward #Likkutei etzos #Likkutei Etzot #new beginnings #new beginnings spiritual coaching and consulting llc #overthink #problem solving #Rebbe Nachman of Breslov #Rebbe Nachman&039;s advice #spiritual growth #Spirituality

[majorbaby]

by the way, something that's been on my mind recently is how people seem to accept what we mean when we say "white man" - that there are certain privileges afforded to white men - and how i've taken that for granted.

there isn't anything inherent that gives white men their privilege, and if im in a space where i need to explain that then i likely haven't said "white man" at all because it will be met with aggression.

im not about to unpack critical race theory every time i talk about race because it's just not practical, but these are not buzzwords im referencing after graduating from u of tumblr. Im kind of worried that every time we drop these terms casually, we edge closer someone who isn't a white supremacist (yet) pointing at such casual usage as evidence that when we say "white" we are referring to some biological trait, and not the social construct that is "the white race".

#analysis paralysis

[way2ten]

5 Tricks to Overcoming Analysis Paralysis

What is Analysis Paralysis?

Do you often find yourself stuck in a never-ending cycle of overthinking and analyzing every decision? If so, you may be suffering from analysis paralysis. This phenomenon occurs when we become overwhelmed by the abundance of choices and information available to us, leading to indecisiveness and a lack of productivity. But fear not! In this blog post, I will share with you five tricks that can help you overcome analysis paralysis and boost your productivity.

1. Set Clear Goals and Priorities

The first step in overcoming analysis paralysis is to set clear goals and priorities. When you have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve, it becomes easier to filter out unnecessary information and focus on what truly matters. Take some time to reflect on your overarching objectives in both your work and personal life.

For example, if you're trying to decide which project to tackle first at work, consider the deadlines, importance, and potential impact of each project. By aligning your choices with your goals, you'll have a better sense of direction.

2. Break Tasks into Smaller Steps

One common reason for analysis paralysis is feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of a task or decision. To combat this, break down complex tasks into smaller steps that are more manageable.

Let's say you're trying to choose a new marketing strategy for your business. Instead of getting lost in endless research about different tactics, start by identifying specific areas where improvements are needed. Then create an action plan with small achievable tasks: conducting market research, brainstorming ideas, and testing different strategies. By focusing on each step individually, you'll make progress while avoiding overwhelm.

3. Embrace Imperfect Decisions

Perfectionism often fuels analysis paralysis. We believe that we need to make the perfect decision every time, which leads to constant second-guessing and inaction.

Rather than striving for perfection, embrace the concept of "good enough." Understand that not every decision needs to be flawless; sometimes, taking action is more important than waiting for the ideal solution. Remember that mistakes are valuable learning opportunities that can guide you towards better choices in the future.

4. Set Deadlines and Stick to Them

A lack of deadlines can contribute to analysis paralysis since there's no sense of urgency pushing us forward. To overcome this, set realistic deadlines for yourself and stick to them.

For instance, if you're researching a new purchase online, give yourself a specific time limit before making a decision. This will prevent endless scrolling through reviews and comparisons without reaching a conclusion. The act of setting deadlines helps train your brain to focus and make decisions more efficiently.

5. Trust Your Intuition

Finally, learn to trust your intuition when facing analysis paralysis. Sometimes our gut feelings provide valuable insights that data or logic cannot capture.

If you're torn between two job offers with similar benefits and salaries but have a good feeling about one company over the other, trust your instincts! Our subconscious mind often processes information that we may not be consciously aware of, so don't dismiss those intuitive nudges.

Conclusion

To overcome analysis paralysis, set clear goals and priorities, break tasks into smaller steps, embrace imperfect decisions, set deadlines, and trust your intuition. By implementing these tricks into your daily life, you'll develop a more decisive mindset and improve your overall productivity.

Remember that overcoming analysis paralysis is a continuous process. Practice these tricks regularly to build the habit of making efficient decisions while maintaining productivity.

#productivity #way2ten #analysis paralysis #prioritization