Per Wikipedia:

Analysis paralysis (or paralysis by analysis) describes an individual or group process where overanalyzing or overthinking a situation can cause forward motion or decision-making to become “paralyzed”, meaning that no solution or course of action is decided upon within a natural time frame.

I, as many others suppose, have many things I’d like to do in my lifetime. Nonetheless, even though I’ve gotten better at it over the years, I still feel easily overwhelmed by all the things I want to do, the things I feel like I’m supposed to do, and the things I must do. What have been your best ways to tackle this? How do you prioritize and find time for different interests, exercise while still combining it with work and other stuff?

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    3·
    16 hours ago

    This is very common and the solution is simple:

    1. Put the choices in a list.
    2. Compare item 1 with item 2, and pick the best option for whatever reason and ignore all the other choices.
    3. Remove the losing option from the list.
    4. Go to step 2 until there is only one choice left.

    This works because every item you eliminated was worse than at least one other item in the list.