Overthinking isn’t just “thinking too much.” That’s the surface-level idea. At deeper levels—where top researchers, philosophers, and strategists operate—it’s something far more structural: a misalignment between thought, uncertainty, and action.
Let’s go into the kind of insights most people never hear:
1. Overthinking is not excess thinking — it’s unresolved prediction error
Your brain is fundamentally a prediction machine (this comes from the scientific framework called Predictive Processi