Design Feeling: From Overthinking to Deep Thinking
What if we could make the most out of our overthinking skills?
“I’m a lifelong overthinker. I've been overthinking everything for at least four decades. And as I gained more tools, knowledge, and skills, I started to realize that this maybe wasn't such a bad thing — that it was a skillset that I was just applying perhaps very poorly, maybe on the wrong topics.
What if we could take all of that skill but actually apply it to a better pursuit, something that serves you better?
From that perspective, overthinkers and deep thinkers, it's the same skillset, just applied differently.”
Are you an overthinking designer?
Then this episode of Design Feeling is just for you!
Kim sits down with Design Thinking Consultant, Educator, Coach and host of the Design Feeling podcast, Nirish Shakya to think deeply about many important things. In this insight-packed episode, we cover:
How to turn overthinking into a super strength by reframing it as curiosity
Being non-judgmental when experiencing negative emotions, plus how to befriend the thought gremlins
The importance of doing less (but doing it better)
Celebrating wins, no matter how small
The design adage “You are not your user” and when it perhaps doesn’t apply
Plus, using tools like affinity mapping to make sense of messy thoughts
Start repurposing all that overthinking energy toward more worthy pursuits:
