The Joy of Not Thinking: A Radical Approach to Happiness

by Tim Grimes

Thinking less and becoming more relaxed is, surprisingly, enough to positively change things.

If you don’t overthink, you’ll feel better, and better things will happen to you. We need this to be repeated to us again and again, so it can be instilled into us.

Hearing about everyone else’s troubles overwhelms us. It makes us suffer unnecessarily and painfully overthink things that we probably shouldn’t be thinking about at all. We can’t even solve our own problems, and now we’re somehow supposed to expertly solve the issues of others? Please! There’s clearly a time and place for listening and helping others with issues they may have, but the truth of the matter is that we have to focus on our own well-being first in order to help others with any sort of real success.