to flourish, we don’t need a stress-free environment, we need one that’s optimally suited to our needs.

hypostress,

“Eustress”

genetic predisposition + stressful precipitating events = overthinking.

Lastly, our daily habits can feed our anxieties and result in overthinking in subtle but significant ways.

Is overthinking genetic? Yes. But it’s not only genetic. Life still weighs in on that seventy-four percent, which means that environment may play a bigger role.

Many of us have become habitual overthinkers because it gives us the illusion that we’re doing something about the problem we’re overthinking about.

this is still just a question of probability. There are no “anxiety genes” that destine you to a fixed fate you can never escape.

the brain is ultimately spending as much time stewing over what is not happening as it is over what is happening. What’s more, doing so generally leads to unhappiness.