August 28, 2011
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When I have an idea, I think about it nonstop. I roll it over and over in my mind, prodding it, testing it. Hours go by–literally hours–and I’m still thinking about it, often without a break other than a few minutes here or there when something more immediate presents itself (the phone rings, someone asks me a question, etc). I run the same scenarios over and over in my mind I don’t know how many times. If the internet is available, I research. For better or for worse, I am immersed. I obsess. And obsess. And obsess. I give myself headaches, literally–headaches from thinking too hard.
I’m not saying that this makes my ideas infallible. Absolutely not. I’m just saying that what is a few days to you feels like a few weeks to me. I forget that.
I need to learn to keep quiet for longer. I need to learn to keep to myself a little better. I don’t think I’ll learn to stop obsessing any time soon, but I could at least give my ideas a longer incubation period before I start letting them out to squawk around the place. It could probably save some stress.
