A common cause of overthinking is that you’re confused, so you keep trying to do better, but you’re not really sure what’s better, so you stay confused. If you’re doing something that you don’t know how to do, you may keep retrying unsuccessfully. Then you

Sometimes people get stuck overthinking things when writing or making decisions. This can be caused by perfectionism. People may keep trying to make their writing or plan more and more perfect. CF and Theory of Constraints (TOC) ideas about goals, variance, limiting factors and excess capacity can help with perfectionism.

Sometimes people get stuck overthinking when writing or making decisions. This often means they’re relying too much on conscious effort and too little on subconscious effort. They get stuck partly because conscious effort is a very limited resource so they don’t have enough. I’m only talking about