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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Overthinking
 Overthinking.
The gifted girl who "fails" the school's IQ screener, because she
over-analyzes the multiple-choice questions. The gifted boy who
focuses on the "letter of the law" in each of the teacher's
assignments, and then gets in trouble with the teacher for not
following the "spirit" of the assignments. The gifted child who
cannot get started on a long-term project because he can think of
all the time and energy and complicated steps that might need to be
taken, and cannot begin because of it. What can you do if you find
yourself, or your kids, overthinking? How can you get away from it?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
Gifted, How?
and
The "G"
Word.
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Blog Hops for all our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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 Gifted
overthinkers: What makes them tick? by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- Overthinking can stem from a need for control. In an effort to stay in
control, these gifted overthinkers seek fool-proof plans to ensure that
problems will not arise...or that their presumed flaws will not be
discovered...or that they will perform perfectly. This fuels perfectionism,
repeated checking. and obsessing about what might go wrong...
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Over Thinking All the Time by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- Here are some synonyms for “over-thinking:” Ruminating, worrying,
evaluating, deliberating, considering, languishing, lamenting, brooding,
over analyzing, pondering, inordinately contemplating, over theorize, being
pensive, overly plan, introspective, obsessive, etc. If I thought longer or
searched more, I’d come up with even more synonyms...
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 Overthinking:
When Your Mind Won’t Turn Off by
Nicole LaChance, Institute for
Educational Advancement
- Overthinking. The irony in writing about this topic, is that I kept
overthinking it. What direction should I take? What tips should I offer?
Where can I find the best research? What if my post doesn’t hold up against
the others? As a chronic overthinker, I wanted to explore the reasons behind
overthinking, how it can hurt and what we can do to rein it in...
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 Overthinking
or Superthinking? by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- Maybe the word overthinking is just as flawed as the word
overexcitability. After all, with every curse comes a blessing, and with
every blessing comes a curse. When it's fueling worry, overthinking sure can
be a burden, but when that same intellectual excitability fuels creativity,
superthinking becomes a superpower...
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Overthinking or Contemplation? Dabrowski weighs in by
Gift-Ed Connections
- Overthinking can not only be agonizing, but it can stop us in our tracks
as we perseverate over a decision, a seemingly insignificant incidence or a
project that we must complete. But does overthinking always deserve the bad
rap that it gets? If we look at the work of psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski
regarding the role and importance of contemplation in self-education we get
a different perspective on this topic as well as some unique insight into
how to support the overthinker in your life..
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 The
World Needs More Overthinkers by Paula Prober,
Your Rainforest Mind
- Thinking has gotten a bad rap. If you do a lot of it, which you know you
do, you’re called an overthinker. And that’s something you’re supposed to
avoid.
Personally, I know people who are under-thinkers. I bet you do, too. Don’t
you just wish those under-thinkers would overthink once in a while? I know I
do....
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Overthinking by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- Problems with overthinking can occur in early childhood if children are
empathetic and aware of what's going on in the world. With horrible news
streaming in every day (and I am a news hound), children are exposed to
horrible things happening all over the world. How are we going to help them
cope with the seamy side of life?...
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 Excuse me while I overthink this post by
Aurora Remember
- For the last few years, I've participated in the Hoagies' Gifted Education
Page Blog Hops, but rarely is there a theme so relevant as this month's
topic of overthinking. The problem is, there's so much to say on the topic I
don't know where to begin. This got me thinking about how we think,
especially as intense, gifted and/or excitable women...
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 How
to Help Your Overthinking Gifted Child by
The Grayson School
- “Overthinking” is a word that must have been invented by a nongifted
person.
Ask an elementary-school-aged gifted child what that term means, and you are
likely to get a quizzical look: “How can you think too much? That doesn’t
make any sense.” They genuinely mean that, too; because they can spend so
much time playing in/with their minds, they don’t easily understand the
concept of thinking ever being a bad thing. In all fairness, their brains
are very interesting places, and there’s a lot going on in there that is
worthy of their attention...
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 Overthinking: Weakness or Strength? by Emily,
The Fissure
- Some children (and adults) seem prone to making quick, impulsive
decisions. At the other extreme, some seem to be held hostage by choices,
evaluating and reevaluating options long past the point most of us would
consider helpful. Consider this: in some cases, what if a student’s tendency
to “overthink” might be a sign of an unmet need…
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 Overthinking Causes Grey Hair by Jen Merrill,
Laughing at Chaos
- Overthinking. It's ironic, really, that I constantly harp on my flute
students about thinking too much, for allowing the inner mental chatter to
distract them. I am Queen and Empress For Life of The Land of Overthinking.
It's both a curse and a gift. On one hand, I can dissect an issue or idea,
chew it up, swish it around, and spit out several outcomes or possibilities;
my husband of 20 years is still impressed and spooked by this...
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To Quit Overthinking, think more by Jen Campbell,
repurposed
genealogy
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 100% of Jen is dedicated to whatever I'm into at the moment. I'm unable
to find the balance that most people have and do several things at once, or
to engage in an activity without going in full throttle.
While 100% extreme personalities make for good characters on reality TV
shows, and my life gives me ample story material for writing and
entertaining friends, my lack of life balance can have a serious downside-
especially when it comes to overthinking. I'm 100% Jen there too...
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December 01, 2020
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