ReThink Podcast

Why Overthinking Feels Like Progress (It Isn't)

August 27, 2026·38 min
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Send us Fan Mail Fourteen days before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a Stanford psychologist happened to ask 137 students how they handle a bad mood. She wasn't studying disasters. But because she already had their answers before anything happened, her follow-up revealed something we almost never get to see clearly: the students who went over things beforehand were still carrying it seven weeks later. Same earthquake. Longer one on the inside. This episode is about the loop that runs in ord...

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