Most people don’t overthink everything. They overthink the worst. One comment from your partner, one email from your boss, one slow week in business, and your brain writes a disaster movie. You rehearse rejection, failure, conflict, embarrassment. Then you call it being realistic.

In EP 3603, Why can’t we overthink the best?, Shaun O’Gorman flips that pattern on its head. If your mind can run 50 scenarios where it all goes wrong, it can run 50 scenarios where you handle it, adapt, and win. Same brain. Same imagination. Different direction.

This episode breaks down why your nervous system defaults to threat scanning, and how that habit sabotages confidence and performance. When you overthink the worst, you don’t prepare, you panic. You avoid conversations. You play small. You start living a life built around risk management instead of purpose.

Overthinking the best is not delusion. It’s rehearsal. It’s training your attention to look for options and actions instead of only danger. You respect risk, but you don’t worship it.

Shaun gives you a simple tool to retrain your thinking without pretending life is perfect: 

You’ll learn how to use optimism as a strategy, not a mood, and how to build an internal dialogue that creates calm, clarity, and decisive action under pressure. If you’re tired of your mind being the loudest enemy in the room, this is your reset.

Listen now and start aiming your thinking at the life you actually want to build.

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