Considering that the focus of this blog is that I am constantly thinking about things, this post may seem a bit counter-productive as I've been thinking about the drawbacks of over analyzing.
I've read a couple books recently that talk about gut reactions and instinct and they mention that too much information can actually be a bad thing. Our brains have been designed to absorb the stimuli around us and make a decision based on either instinct or experience (which includes knowledge, education etc). However problems can and do arise when we have too much information. Our brains become muddled with all the information swirling around and what should be a simple instinct based decision suddenly turns into an overwhelming myriad of options. And what usually happens is that we stray so far from the initial thoughts that the information becomes virtually pointless.
Our gut instinct is there for a reason. It's there for you to react in a way that is (mostly) productive, safe and reasonable. *note that this is not taking into account purely emotional reactions* Quite often we'll dismiss that initial reaction looking for more information. The whole concept of "girls over think things way too much". Which is soooo true it's annoying. Can we really benefit from analyzing something to the point where the initial concept is gone completely? Too much information will more often than not end up hurting us.
The idea of having too much info to sort through can play into the idea of acceptance. So many females (myself included) go over and over and over and over and over the same question, looking for different answers. Different answers does not necessarily equal the right answer nor does it equal AN answer.... just more questions. More questions to analyze, more answers to question. And around we go! We need to learn how to be content with things to avoid analyzing something to the point where it no longer has any relevance.
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