Managing Overthinking (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Get your mind unstuck.
It can be challenging to be mindful when you're trapped in your own head. Overthinking comes in many forms?overanalysis, perfectionism, worry, rumination?and each of these can be harmful to your productivity and well-being at work.
This book will teach you how to understand what type of overthinking you are experiencing, realize when you're cycling in a mental loop, and break free so that you can trust your gut, make a decision, and move forward with confidence.
This volume includes the work of:
- Alice Boyes
- Melody Wilding
- Thomas H. Davenport
- Sian Beilock
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
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Content
- Cover
- HBR Emotional Intelligence Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 Three Types of Overthinking- and How to Overcome Them
- Rumination
- Signs to watch out for
- How to address it
- Future tripping
- Signs to watch out for
- How to address it
- Overanalyzing
- Signs to watch out for
- How to address it
- Notes
- 2 Why We Overthink When We're Stressed
- ARE YOU A CHRONIC WORRIER?
- Notes
- 3 How to Stop Dwelling on Your Stress
- Four strategies to help you take a break from stress
- 1. Anchor yourself
- 2. Take your thoughts less seriously
- 3. Sit with uncertainty
- 4. Self-validate
- Notes
- 4 Managing Your Inner Chatter
- Alison Beard: Why do we as humans talk to ourselves?
- While chatter seems to have some upsides, could you elaborate on its negative effects?
- How common is it for people to really struggle with negative chatter on a regular basis? Are some people more susceptible to it than others?
- What are some tools we can leverage on our own to manage it?
- Are there other ways to broaden your perspective?
- If I am a manager, a leader of a team, or a colleague, how can I figure out when someone is struggling with chatter and help them calm it?
- 5 How Perfectionists Can Get Out of Their Own Way
- How perfectionists get in their own way
- What perfectionists can do to change
- 6 Stop Worrying About Making the Right Decision
- 7 When to Stop Deliberating and Just Make a Decision
- Consider the importance of your decision
- Determine how often the same decision will be made
- Look into buying an option
- Put a clock on your decision
- 8 How to Start Trusting Your Gut
- The science behind your gut feelings
- How to leverage your intuition in decision-making
- Discern gut feeling from fear
- Start by making minor decisions
- Test-drive your choices
- Try the snap judgment test
- Fall back on your values
- Notes
- 9 Simple Ways to Stop Obsessing Over Your Mistakes
- 10 Build More Breakthroughs in Your Day
- What is a breakthrough?
- Stop judging yourself and start silencing your inner cynic
- When you're tempted to lean on what you know, strip away everything
- If you realize you're playing perfect, get real
- Index
- Back Cover
