How to Stop Overthinking: 8 Tips From a Therapist...

[Fred Bloggs]

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 12:30 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

Pareto principle applies in the areas it applies, which I don\'t think is
nearly as many areas as over-thinkers have attempted to shoehorn it into.

\"often\" is a huge weasel-word. how often is \"often.\"

Sometimes the first 20% of my time in electronics design or writing
software produces exactly nothing, the first attempt just sucks, scrap
it all. I have a box half a foot deep at this point of scrapped circuits
that were either dead ends or never went anywhere without significantly
more effort than 20% more.

Sometimes the smartest move is to walk away early, sort of like dating
in your 30s or 40s you learn about the sunk-cost fallacy and the
principle of \"the juice isn\'t worth the squeeze.\"

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

Think smarter not harder, or something.

 

[server]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

>\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:07:10 PM UTC-5, bitrex wrote:

On 12/13/2020 12:30 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.
Pareto principle applies in the areas it applies, which I don\'t think is
nearly as many areas as over-thinkers have attempted to shoehorn it into.

\"often\" is a huge weasel-word. how often is \"often.\"

Sometimes the first 20% of my time in electronics design or writing
software produces exactly nothing, the first attempt just sucks, scrap
it all. I have a box half a foot deep at this point of scrapped circuits
that were either dead ends or never went anywhere without significantly
more effort than 20% more.

Sometimes the smartest move is to walk away early, sort of like dating
in your 30s or 40s you learn about the sunk-cost fallacy and the
principle of \"the juice isn\'t worth the squeeze.\"
\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

Think smarter not harder, or something.

We\'re living in the era of pseudo-mathematicization which somehow garners instant respect, awe and admiration for ideas, people, places and things, and apparently conjectures. In the 15th-18th centuries it was Latinization that did the trick. Just give something a Latin name and voila, you have the imprimatur of the gods of antiquity.

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 1:45 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?


Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

True fats, but another true fact is that a lot of clients don\'t
understand what therapy is supposed to be about. Productive therapy is
goal-oriented it\'s not primarily being a paid friend to listen to the
sad story of one\'s past (which many people have.) Anyone going to a
therapist\'s door thinking they can make them existentially happy or
other not-well-defined goals, or resolve their trauma or PTSD or
whatever just by talking at them is going to the wrong person.

\"If all you ever do is all you\'ve ever done then all you\'ll ever get is
all you\'ve ever got\" is a decent summary of the \"therapeutic process\"

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just bought a
second home.

 

[John Doe]

Ask your therapist how to stop posting off-topic
without proper labeling...

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\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

 

[server]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:09:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just bought a
second home.

Yes. Change the lives of frightened, anxious, neurotic people by
relieving them of excess income.

Our great-granparents, if they had been told about the world of their
descendents, would have marveled at how happy we must all be.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[server]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:05:05 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:45 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?


Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.


True fats, but another true fact is that a lot of clients don\'t
understand what therapy is supposed to be about.

It\'s mostly about paying someone to listen to their whining, when
their friends and family don\'t want to hear it any more.

Productive therapy is
goal-oriented

The goal being long-term revenue.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 2:32 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:09:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just bought a
second home.

Yes. Change the lives of frightened, anxious, neurotic people by
relieving them of excess income.

Tends to be covered in large part by health insurance even in the US.
People with severe OCD might wash their hands 30 or 50 times a day even
prior to the pandemic, till they\'re raw and bloody. A crippling
neuro-psychiatric disorder that they never asked for, that many would
pay any price to cure, due to some error in brain biochemistry that
responds poorly to medication but thankfully does seem to respond well
to directed behavior-modification therapy.

Humans aren\'t Pavlov\'s dogs but some of the same principles apply, if
you can train it to salivate when the bell rings you can also train it
to not-salivate when the bell rings, through exercises to weaken those
associations.

Our great-granparents, if they had been told about the world of their
descendents, would have marveled at how happy we must all be.

One of my great-grandfathers was lost at sea for a few days on a fishing
trip until he was picked up by a Portuguese trawler. He was later one of
the last captains of the pre-dreadnought Indiana-class battleship
Massachusetts.

I like swimming but hate heights which, y\'know. clearly proves
Lamarckian inheritance is real

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 2:34 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:05:05 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:45 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?


Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.


True fats, but another true fact is that a lot of clients don\'t
understand what therapy is supposed to be about.

It\'s mostly about paying someone to listen to their whining, when
their friends and family don\'t want to hear it any more.

There are \"therapists\" who cater to that market. Better ones will cut a
client short and remind them that sessions are about the client, not
about what other people are up to, which mostly can\'t be controlled.

But telling Americans things they don\'t want to hear about themselves is
rarely popular so there\'s an art to framing it in the right way, in
large part this is what they go to therapist-school for.

Productive therapy is
goal-oriented

The goal being long-term revenue.

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 2:34 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:05:05 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:45 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?


Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is, underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.


True fats, but another true fact is that a lot of clients don\'t
understand what therapy is supposed to be about.

It\'s mostly about paying someone to listen to their whining, when
their friends and family don\'t want to hear it any more.

Productive therapy is
goal-oriented

The goal being long-term revenue.

They spot clients like John Larkin a mile away, on the rare occasions
they show up in an office. \"Are you even a real doctor...\"

 

[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 3:29 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 12/13/2020 2:34 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:05:05 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:45 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time and
effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a given
outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only yields an
additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"

What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?


Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a
plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues
like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline
personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is,
underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.

20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.


True fats, but another true fact is that a lot of clients don\'t
understand what therapy is supposed to be about.

It\'s mostly about paying someone to listen to their whining, when
their friends and family don\'t want to hear it any more.

Productive therapy is
goal-oriented

The goal being long-term revenue.



They spot clients like John Larkin a mile away, on the rare occasions
they show up in an office. \"Are you even a real doctor...\"

Or not so rare, perhaps. I\'d probably be surprised just how many people
walk into a therapist\'s office and proceed to give their opinion on
\"what therapy is\" to someone with a degree in the field. Then again, I
probably shouldn\'t be.

 

[amdx]

On 12/13/2020 2:15 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 12/13/2020 2:32 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:09:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time
and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a
given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only
yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a
plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues
like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline
personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is,
underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just bought a
second home.

Yes. Change the lives of frightened, anxious, neurotic people by
relieving them of excess income.

Tends to be covered in large part by health insurance even in the US.
People with severe OCD might wash their hands 30 or 50 times a day
even prior to the pandemic, till they\'re raw and bloody. A crippling
neuro-psychiatric disorder that they never asked for, that many would
pay any price to cure, due to some error in brain biochemistry that
responds poorly to medication but thankfully does seem to respond well
to directed behavior-modification therapy.

Humans aren\'t Pavlov\'s dogs but some of the same principles apply, if
you can train it to salivate when the bell rings you can also train it
to not-salivate when the bell rings, through exercises to weaken those
associations.

I every morning I start my coffee brewing and then get on the computer,
as soon as I hear the burbling of the coffeepot finishing I get up and
get my coffee.

I did my normal routine the other morning, I heard the burble of the
coffee pot, got up walked to the kitchen then realized I\'d already had
my two cups

and my wife made had a made pot, which is unusual.

                             Mikek



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[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 3:40 PM, amdx wrote:

On 12/13/2020 2:15 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 12/13/2020 2:32 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:09:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time
and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a
given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only
yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like a
plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health issues
like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and borderline
personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is,
underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just bought a
second home.

Yes. Change the lives of frightened, anxious, neurotic people by
relieving them of excess income.

Tends to be covered in large part by health insurance even in the US.
People with severe OCD might wash their hands 30 or 50 times a day
even prior to the pandemic, till they\'re raw and bloody. A crippling
neuro-psychiatric disorder that they never asked for, that many would
pay any price to cure, due to some error in brain biochemistry that
responds poorly to medication but thankfully does seem to respond well
to directed behavior-modification therapy.

Humans aren\'t Pavlov\'s dogs but some of the same principles apply, if
you can train it to salivate when the bell rings you can also train it
to not-salivate when the bell rings, through exercises to weaken those
associations.

I every morning I start my coffee brewing and then get on the computer,
as soon as I hear the burbling of the coffeepot finishing I get up and
get my coffee.

I did my normal routine the other morning, I heard the burble of the
coffee pot, got up walked to the kitchen then realized I\'d already had
my two cups

and my wife made had a made pot, which is unusual.

                             Mikek

Sounds like you have a caffeine addiction to me. why anyone queues up at
a drive-thru Dunkin\' Donuts line 15 cars deep at some god-forsaken hour
of the morning is also puzzling behavior to people who don\'t have it.

 

[amdx]

 Hi John,
I have seen you post this several times.
Since I don\'t know how to read a header, how about explaining what it is
you are unhappy with in the header?
Mikek

On 12/13/2020 1:17 PM, John Doe wrote:

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Subject: How to Stop Overthinking: 8 Tips From a Therapist
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[bitrex]

On 12/13/2020 3:47 PM, amdx wrote:

 Hi John,
I have seen you post this several times.
Since I don\'t know how to read a header, how about explaining what it is
you are unhappy with in the header?
Mikek

He didn\'t have what it takes to be a cop IRL. so he is trying to be a
net-cop intstead

 

[amdx]

On 12/13/2020 2:45 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 12/13/2020 3:40 PM, amdx wrote:
On 12/13/2020 2:15 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 12/13/2020 2:32 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:09:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/13/2020 1:57 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:45:17 PM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:30:30 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Practice the 80/20 rule - The first twenty percent of our time
and effort often produce eighty percent of the benefit from a
given outcome; the remaining eighty percent of our effort only
yields an additional twenty percent of the benefit.\"
What does he mean by Practice? Maybe only work the 20% that\'s
productive? Everyone work an 8-hour week?

Now how could they possibly know that! Sounds suspiciously like
a plagiarism of Pareto\'s famous observation but without the
genius.

\"Overthinking is also often associated with mental health
issues like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and
borderline personality disorder.\"

The real problem is overthinking underthinkers, that is,
underthinkers who overthink, such as they are capable.
20% of therapists do some net good, and 80% are delusional hacks
who
do more harm than good, and charge a lot for that.

This woman, the Ms. 80/20 rule, is changing peoples\' lives:
http://healthymindtoolkit.com/

I have a friend from high school who\'s an OCD/anxiety-disorder
therapist, business has been very good lately I think she just
bought a
second home.

Yes. Change the lives of frightened, anxious, neurotic people by
relieving them of excess income.

Tends to be covered in large part by health insurance even in the
US. People with severe OCD might wash their hands 30 or 50 times a
day even prior to the pandemic, till they\'re raw and bloody. A
crippling neuro-psychiatric disorder that they never asked for, that
many would pay any price to cure, due to some error in brain
biochemistry that responds poorly to medication but thankfully does
seem to respond well to directed behavior-modification therapy.

Humans aren\'t Pavlov\'s dogs but some of the same principles apply,
if you can train it to salivate when the bell rings you can also
train it to not-salivate when the bell rings, through exercises to
weaken those associations.

I every morning I start my coffee brewing and then get on the
computer, as soon as I hear the burbling of the coffeepot finishing I
get up and get my coffee.

I did my normal routine the other morning, I heard the burble of the
coffee pot, got up walked to the kitchen then realized I\'d already
had my two cups

and my wife made had a made pot, which is unusual.

                              Mikek




Sounds like you have a caffeine addiction to me. why anyone queues up
at a drive-thru Dunkin\' Donuts line 15 cars deep at some god-forsaken
hour of the morning is also puzzling behavior to people who don\'t have
it.

 If it\'s an addition, it\'s not much of one. I didn\'t drink any of the
pot my wife made. I do enjoy having the two 12oz cups (24oz) of coffee I
drink daily, but I rarely drink more than that. I haven\'t bought coffee
at a restaurant for a year. I did buy at a McDonalds drive through in
2011, I was 46 yrs old and the 16yr old girl behind the counter ask if I
got the senior discount, I didn\'t think quick enough to say yes!

                                  Mikek


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[amdx]

On 12/13/2020 2:56 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 12/13/2020 3:47 PM, amdx wrote:
  Hi John,
I have seen you post this several times.
Since I don\'t know how to read a header, how about explaining what it
is you are unhappy with in the header?
Mikek

He didn\'t have what it takes to be a cop IRL. so he is trying to be a
net-cop intstead

 Nah, it\'s  just a way to dig at Bloggs. But I don\'t know what the dig is.

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