“Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.”

“Over analysis leads to paralysis”

“Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!”

“The more you overthink the less you will understand.”

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“It occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.”