Someone invented the word “overthinking” for a reason. It's apt. I find myself doing it once in a while, I get stuck in my thought process and find it hard to get out. I read a “meme” recently about overthinking that suggests that if you find yourself in that process, count backwards from 100 in intervals of 7 and it will get you out of that loop you find yourself in. Apparently the brain cannot overthink and do math at the same time. Personally I cannot do anything while "mathing" including math itself.
This notion is interesting to think about though. It is also interesting to try to do. I tried. I am not good at it at all. I am practicing. Perhaps making a chart to memorize would help. I could take a picture of said chart and have it handy on my phone. Okay -- now I am overthinking about overthinking and am caught in some sort of irritating loop once again. Obviously even the idea of counting backwards by sevens from 100 makes me overthink. I do not do numbers well at all – especially the odd ones. I am a word person. Maybe I could try doing the alphabet backwards? Give me a minute....
No not able to do that well either. I keep jumping ahead by three letters to remember what they are and then going backwards to continue. There must be another way. I will think about it.
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