You probably know someone who has a thousand ideas, analyzes everything, but never moves forward.
It’s not laziness...
It’s often an excess of unmanaged intelligence.
In fact, in The War of Art, Steven Pressfield says :
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reddit.comWhy are very intelligent people often paralyzed by action ?
Worrying about wasting your life is one of the top 3 reasons I see “smart” people do nothing important. Up there with rationalizing something is beneath them when they really want that thing and believing they can rationalize a perfect move at all. Like life is some puzzle where they can comprehend how it all fits together.
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The Curse of Overthinking
The more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to consider what can go wrong before you take action. Ironically, this is causing more things to go wrong in your life.
That person you know who seems to be effortlessly successful in their career? The one who... See more
One strategy is to avoid what you need to do and then spend lots of energy trying to find out why you are avoiding it. This is a great way to continue to avoid taking action. Another strategy is to assume you need to feel like doing something before you do it.