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Feb 2022
7m 54s

Overthinking?

Sarah Marshall
About this episode

Overthinking? Have you ever been concentrating so hard on the mechanics of a task that your body was literally tripping over itself and completely uncooperative? Have you also found as you grew in accomplishment and performance experience that this problem was less common?

Today’s episode looks at the difference between amateurs susceptibility to overthinking versus professionals who do it much more rarely.


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