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Managing Overthinking
Get your mind unstuck.
It can be challenging to be mindful when you're trapped in your own head. Overthinking comes in many forms—overanalysis, perfectionism, worry, rumination—and each of these can be harmful to your productivity and well-being at work.
This book will teach you how to understand what type of overthinking you are experiencing, realize when you're cycling in a mental loop, and break free so that you can trust your gut, make a decision, and move forward with confidence.
This volume includes the work
Alice BoyesMelody WildingThomas H. DavenportSian Beilock
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
It can be challenging to be mindful when you're trapped in your own head. Overthinking comes in many forms—overanalysis, perfectionism, worry, rumination—and each of these can be harmful to your productivity and well-being at work.
This book will teach you how to understand what type of overthinking you are experiencing, realize when you're cycling in a mental loop, and break free so that you can trust your gut, make a decision, and move forward with confidence.
This volume includes the work
Alice BoyesMelody WildingThomas H. DavenportSian Beilock
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
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125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 25, 2025
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January 29, 2026
Meh. Should’ve known from the length that this can’t go into detail. Some interesting ideas but repetitive and shallow. I blame the bookshop for ranking it this week’s number one book.
June 17, 2025
Becoming too common of a hbr book - very generic and broad based thoughts and no depth. What you could have covered in a single paragraph blog, hbr has made it into a a commercial book
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June 2, 2025cada vez que leía solo podía pensar que soy esa😭
September 29, 2025
“If you worry too much just pick a day to worry all at once instead of doing it sporadically” real
December 3, 2025
Some interesting essays in overthinking but book would have been a lot better if an editor had been involved in unifying them in some way
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