Soft tempest

A clarification of my last post, prompted by the comments:

Andrew mentioned that well-known problem, “paralysis by analysis”. (Btw, if I’ve ever had kindred spirits when it comes to thinking, one of them is Andrew. There are a few others I’ve discovered since…) The champion of P by A has got to be the protagonist of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground: a man rendered immobile by his thoughts.

The good thing is that I’m aware of the phenomenon and try to stay away from it :). For the most part, I try to be conscious of all the stupid things my brain does when I make decisions.

So the doubts tend to be more annoyances than hindrances, like little flies buzzing in front of my face when I’m trying to think.
my brain: bzz bzzzzzz you suck bzzzz bzzzz
me: argh, shut the hell up!

Hehe. I gotta love myself sometimes.