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Mar 2023
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Overthinking

Omar
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In this episode, Omar talks about the negative and positive effects of overthinking while he also talks about how overthinking affects your life and your buying decisions 
He also discusses how overthinking has affected his life and how overthinking an make you unhappy. Omar also touches up on how to possibly stop overthinking.


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