My Fellow Reader, 

Welcome to another illustrious week of self-improvement. Every week I roll out a fucker’s delight newsletter that aims to help you stroll towards your highest potential – step by step. This week we are talking about 1) The mental stress of Overthinking, 2) The ability to adjust well, and 3) My upcoming Book. Let’s get going right away. 

#1) The Mental Stress of Overthinking 

Often characterized by pensive melancholy, overthinking is an art of creating unnecessary suffering. To assume things which aren’t true and to envision everything that can go horribly incorrect in the future. 

Viscerally stating, overthinking is damned as some sort of mental torture indignity onto a person as an eternal punishment till he is alive. It is portrayed in our society as an irrational, insensible, and stupid thing to do. However, this isn’t always true. The ability to think more isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It also has its own merits and benefits. It can be instrumental in your success if used wisely. Think about anyone who has achieved excellence in any field. Be it science, sports, or anything else – his volume of thinking would be remarkably high compared to any other person in his profession.

Therefore, thinking more cannot be necessarily categorized as a bad or wrong activity. In fact, I would argue that not thinking more but not thinking appropriately is the problem. This week I wrote an article to establish some clarity on the subject of overthinking. I also articulated a 5-step process to defeat the mental stress caused by it. The article is extensive and pragmatic and quite useful. 

Read Here: How to defeat the Mental Stress of Overthinking?

#2) The Ability to adjust well 

Over the past few months, we all have found ourselves doing things we wouldn’t have otherwise imagined. Buying glubs and sanitizers, bulk grocery shopping, locking ourselves inside for weeks, and working from home, would be some of the leading highlights of the ongoing calendar year. 

Around the end of the first quarter, we were forced to stay inside and work from the couch. Working leisurely on beds added a component of laziness, which soon engulfed and destroyed our routines. Inertia set in, and now traveling for an hour or so every morning to reach our respective offices seems far-fetched. 

Though most of us are still locked in quarters, yet some companies have shaped up. Lockdown restrictions are slowly being brought down and markets are now coming back to normal life. The coming Monday would also witness the re-opening of malls, and restaurants will commence dine-in facilities for guests.

Life is slowly heading towards normal after months of crisis and fear. Yet, for the fact that a proper vaccine isn’t discovered so far, safety would still be an overwhelming concern for all of us for a long time. However, we now need to learn to live with crisis, fear, and uncertainty. 

During such times, the ability to adjust becomes not only vital but essential for survival. Stepping out of comfort zones is not only important but necessary. But how? How do we help ourselves adjust better? I do have some ideas which I am going to pen down in an article for next week. If you have some ideas as well, then do share them with me. 

#3) My upcoming Book 

For the last eighteen months, I’ve been working on something very important. Something which I believe will help all of us suck a little less. It will boost our growth and would enable us to reach our highest potential. It can very well help us end all our sufferings by teaching us a brand new way to approach life. Or, this may all be a dream. And it might suck. Maybe, nobody would buy it. I am not sure. I am not the one who gets to decide. 

For what its worth, I’ve almost completed my part of the work, and in the next few months (most probably), it will be in your hands to decide. You can then read to learn from it, or you can use it as tissue paper to help sneeze. Your call! Until then, you can check its first look and what it’s about here. 

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Till next time,

Aashish