I would like to ask: have you ever had a conversation that kept you in prolonged deep thought about how things played out? You get back to your house or your proposed destination, and then your mind starts to ponder how you responded, what happened, and how you even got into that awkward conversation. Sometimes it might just be a brief encounter of about 5 minutes, but your brain keeps replaying the scene in your head like you are a renowned movie director looking for scenes to cut out from your IMAX camera.
Dear you, that is what I like to refer to as deep thoughts. Some people could refer to it in today's world as overthinking, but for me, I chose my word coinage from classical chess: deep thoughts. For chess players, classical games would not be new to you, and for the newbie, it is the kind of chess where players spend a lot of time thinking about what to play before they finally make the move. It is more like taking a round look at the board to figure out what to play before making the move, and it takes a lot of time. You keep asking yourself endless questions about what will happen if you opt for this move over that move. More options may even pop into your mind while looking for a solution, and you are not sure which to go for. I am sure you get a feel for why I refer to it as deep thoughts. Next, we will get to why I am asking if it can be a problem.
Aside from it taking a lot of time and being mentally draining, I believe deep thoughts can be a problem. This is because we can get hooked on thinking paralysis, which is where you have become enmeshed in the problem and you tend to see less and less of the solution. It is like a statement I got from chess, which says the threat is worse than the execution. This happens on the board when your opponent plays a good move that creates more threat on the chessboard for you. At the point when the move is on the board, the execution is not yet in play, but it is what will come next. You see your queen is going down next, your king is in trouble, and you have to worry about the rook as well. When you fixate your mind on the threat alone, the execution begins to get magnified in your brain. You become more and more worried about what will happen than looking for how to stop it.
This happens when you focus on your problem all the time and pay less attention to the solutions that can be found. There will be problems, but thinking so much about it can lead to more worrying. Spend less time spotting the problem and more time finding the solution. When you spot the threat, the next step is to find the solution. Know when to draw yourself out of that prolonged deep thought that brings more and more worries. For me, I spot it when I get more tense; then I know the worry is kicking in.
Thinking deeply is cool when you are looking for a solution. Do not spend more of your brainpower worrying so much when you find out the worst that can happen. Next, move on to finding solutions.
I am @samostically, a chess player and writer. I love to share the experience I have gained from different battles over the 64 squares and the knowledgeable insights from books I have read. But most importantly, I am a Midnight Owl and I founded the community Midnight Letters.
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I think it all depends on how deep the thoughts are after all.
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The deeper it goes, the more complicated they are.
Usually, when we think for long, our brains end up going with what feels familiar the most even when it isn’t the best choice. But what that does to us is that we feel okay about it regardless of the outcome because we have an idea of how it will normally end and that feels better than choosing what’s unknown.
Sometimes, deep thinking is necessary but every now and then, it’s best to trick our brains by going with the least familiar move, it keeps us in control of our thoughts and not the other way around.
Seeing how you most times connect stuffs with chess amazes me.
That aside, most times, the problem isn't even the situation or problem itself, but in how many times we keep brooding over it and replaying it in our heads.
Once we identify a problem, the next should be us looking for the way out and not keep feeding the brain with worries.
Thanks for sharing.
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