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How Overthinking is the worst drug

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I spent a long time wasting my days scrolling through Facebook and driving around, thinking about all the bad things that happened to me. From friends betraying me and pointing me in the wrong direction, to all the bad choices I made along the way.

But the biggest mistake I made was overthinking — it’s worse than any drug. No, really — you can spend your entire life doing nothing but thinking and never get anywhere. Overthinking is like reading the same sentence twelve times — it gets you nowhere.

About a month ago, I went to the gym for the first time in years, and I was shocked at how out of shape I am. It made me think about how much time I wasted and how I didn’t get anywhere.

Now I’m starting a routine: wake up every day, go to the gym, go to the bookstore, read, and write in this blog. At night, I watch a movie and then go to sleep.

The more you do in life, the slower time moves — the less you do, the faster time goes by. Because when you look back, you can see all the things you accomplished.

You can literally rob yourself of years of your life by doing nothing but thinking, leaving yourself with nothing but wasted time to look back on.

I believe the biggest reason people don’t achieve anything in life is because they spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing. I’m going to change and follow a routine, and I suggest you should too.

Someone overthinking

Make the best of every situation

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I came to realize that being positive is not just when your life is going well. You could be living on the street and be homeless. In that horrible, hopeless situation, you could still be positive and make the best of it.


You could be a millionaire, living on a yacht, and still be miserable and negative. It is not the outside conditions that shape you; it is how you view the conditions you are in.


We spend about 47% of our time inside our head, thinking, according to research where people were asked randomly throughout the day what they were doing.

So how do you make the best of every situation?
I was sitting next to an old lady when I noticed something different about her. I don’t know why, but I asked her, “How do you view the world?” She said she was an artist. She said there is an old lady walking down the street in the biggest ghetto, trying to make ends meet. There is something beautiful about that. There is something beautiful in every situation, she said. I asked, “When did you realize that?” She said she was always like that; that’s why she chose to be an artist.

That is how we should make the best of every situation. We should see the good in the worst situations—even homelessness, addiction, and even prison.


Because if we don’t, it will only get worse. That is the cure to a horrible life.

Sit with the pain or feeling

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When I was in my twenties, I attended a seminar on how to deal with addiction. During the seminar, a gentleman in his forties shared his story about his battle with heroin addiction. He spoke candidly about his struggles and the methods he had tried to overcome his dependency. The most effective approach, he said, was learning to sit with the feeling—acknowledging it, locating where it resided in his body, and simply being present with it.

What he meant was not running away from the craving, not suppressing it, and certainly not acting on it. Instead, he advised sitting with the sensation, even if it was just for a few seconds. Those few seconds mattered, he explained, because they represented a moment of triumph—a moment where you chose not to act on the craving or the urge.

Years later, when I decided to quit smoking cigarettes, I used the very same technique. Whenever the craving hit, I would sit with it, allowing myself to fully experience the sensation without giving in. Sometimes I could manage to sit with the craving for five minutes; other times, I pushed myself to hold out for an hour. It wasn’t easy, but over time, I noticed that my willpower began to strengthen.

Little by little, those moments of resistance added up. Each time I sat with the craving, I felt a small victory, and eventually, my determination grew strong enough to quit altogether. As of today, I’ve been smoke-free for 11 days, and I feel a deep sense of accomplishment knowing that I overcame one of the toughest battles of my life using this simple yet powerful technique.