how I stopped overthinking (you can too)

Описание: I'm a chronic overthinker for all my adult life and it has caused me a lot of anxiety worrying about the thoughts in my head. On the outside, it may seem that I'm able to see loopholes in different situations or scenarios, but it in the inside, I'm suffering from having these never ending thought loop cycles. I hate it and would not wish it upon my worst enemy.

A simple, and by no means perfect, analogy that I randomly came up with to illustrate how I experience overthinking is like putting wet clothes in the dryer. Thoughts are like wet clothes and the dryer is my head. In the beginning, wet clothes do not take up much space in the dryer, but as it dries up, it will occupy more room. As the clothes spin around the dryer (or as thoughts marinade in my head) for x-amount of time, these clothes start dry up and expand (the thoughts get bigger in my head and occupies my entire headspace).

In the past year, journaling has helped me get these thoughts out my head and onto paper. It was my way of clearing up headspace and avoid getting overwhelmed with thoughts that were just … thoughts.

Towards the end of editing this video, I was overthinking my poor production and actually wanted to reshoot the whole thing. But, screw that. I'm posting this anyway to learn from it and punch perfectionism in the face. DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT!

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Notes: Video Learnings
1. Talk at a slower space instead of rushing your sentences. Create space between your words to add clarity.

2. Don't over complicate things. Focus on one thing at a time. Story is king so focus on storytelling for now. Worry about visuals and colour grading in the future once you nail storytelling.

Shot, edited, and written by Maurice Paolo
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