This might be the most important post, i’ve written so far.
Most of my failures are connected with me overthinking. When i overthink, i have much more stress, anxiety, toxicity, undecisiveness, vulnerability, lack of concentration and bad mood.
We’re not our thoughts.
If we don’t think about something - it still happens. If we don’t notice something, it still happens, and we eventually see the results of it.
In competitive sports, i constantly overthinking, trying to be smarter, while the best strategy is simple. This is the usual thing for me to lose to a newbie, or a person who less experienced than me, just because they have less information to think about, and thus they don’t overthink. They just follow the natural way, and try to adapt. While i am trying to be out of my pants innovative and progressive. The answer probably is - do your best, do what you know. Utilize your situation the best you can, without wasting time.
Take breaks in-between to process the information - let it happen even in background. It’s beneficial to play 1 match and meditate with the dreams about that match, than to do 2 matches.
Sail in the flow, with time you will be able to make turns, to avoid pointy rocks and dangerous currents. Listen to other people, watch the other people language, but play your game. Don’t pretend to be an undifferent to the game’s outcome, but play relaxed. It could be a win or lose, but in either way it is an experience.
We might think we have a deeper reason inside us, a sacred divine intellect that guide us, but in the fact we’re only ones that forge our destiny - not by one particular action, but by our openness to upcoming events and adaptability to it.
We do things we love, and see opportunities around us. If we see an opportunity viable - we go for it. We don’t plan miles ahead, we don’t overthink our strategy.
A simple man, with a simple plan.
We want to make a video game. We don’t overthink it - we already know what needs to be done at this day, this week. For the next stage, the smallest one, perfectly for the next day, we write a plan in the evening.
We know the destination point, and an approximate time we expect to get there, but we’re ready for changes, turns, opportunities. We neither locked to our plan blindly, nor going completely without a plan.
Life is not that complicated as we label it to be.