Overthinking isn’t thinking.

It’s just noise pretending to be insight.

A few weeks ago, I met with a group of twenty-somethings — fresh graduates trying to figure out what to do with their lives.

One of them asked how I knew what career choices to make.

I told them the truth:

You don’t figure it out lying in your bedroom, staring at the ceiling.

You figure it out by mixing it up in the world.

You follow your gut, act, observe, adjust.

They asked a smart follow-up:

“How did you know you could trust your gut?”

That one took me years to answer.

Because the gut only becomes trustworthy once you’ve cleared out the noise.

For me, that meant years of meditation and quiet — learning to separate the chattering “monkey mind” from the deeper current of awareness underneath. It meant building frameworks that helped me understand how systems actually behave — whether in a business, a relationship, or my own mind.

And it meant unlearning.

Distinguishing what I was meant to do from what I’d inherited — from parents, peers, and society.

That process — cutting the wheat from the chaff — was hard. But it was worth it.

Then one of the women said, “I don’t trust my gut. I like to talk to a lot of people first.”

She described how she’d spin in circles between everyone else’s opinions — stuck in loops of overthinking.

That’s when it hit me:

Overthinking isn’t thinking.

It’s entropy.

Thinking, real thinking, is structured. It moves from observation to pattern to clarity.

Overthinking is the opposite — unstructured energy running wild.

If you want freedom from it, do two things:

First, develop self-trust.

Sit quietly. Learn to tell the difference between your own felt sense of truth and the noise of the world.

Second, build frameworks.

When you can see how systems actually work — whether human or organizational — you stop being lost in opinion. You start seeing cause and effect.

Freedom isn’t in more analysis.

Freedom is in the framework.

Here’s a simple framework—PSIU—that helps you see yourself, your relationships, and your team with new clarity. 👉 https://organizationalphysics.com/worlds-fastest-leadership-test/

– Lex, your CEO coach

📌 P.S. Most “thinking” is just mental clutter. Clarity begins when you stop trying to solve and start listening.