The word overthinking simply means that a person is stressing out too much on a thought, topic or an incident which happened to him/her.

Here we are talking about negative overthinking where people overthink to a certain level and hence exhaust themselves physically and mentally.

But if we look at our scientists who are working day in, day out to bring innovative invention to our lives, the medical science researchers who have made the vaccine for Covid-19 or the entrepreneurs who are running their buisness worth millions of dollars, having thousands of employees and abiding the complex structure and norms of business and getting their profit out of all these. What do you think? Do you think these people are relaxed and calm all the time and not having or giving much thought to their profession, hell no! These are the people who think constantly about a topic, analyse a problem, watching the situation from each and every aspect and then the SWOT analysis happens & so on. 

So thinking too much is not bad, let's get that clear first, but thinking too much on irrelevant and imaginary things is not a sign of productivity. 

Now the question is why do we do that? Overthinking negatively and creating the worst case scenarios in our mind all the time. Well it happens when we sit idle at our home having nothing to do, so our mind automatically shifts to thinking because the energy has to go somewhere. You might not be working physically, but your mind doesn't know it and therefore it will start its activity where such thoughts would come and create fearful and dreadful consequences which might happen to you in future. It just creates a chain of events which might happen to you in life and eventually you'll end up with a big misfortune and failure.

So to overcome this what do we need to do? We just need to identify our interests, get out of our room and explore people and new things if you are a young individual or if you are a working professional you can focus on developing your skillset rather than thinking about other people's opinion. 

We just need to keep our mind engaged in some activity, cause if we won't do that our mind will become lethargic and the cycle of moving in circular thoughts would happen again.

No one knows when they'll leave this world , nobody has any idea that which is their last day on this planet. We all are here for a limited period of time. 

Life is too short to overthink, so live your life to the fullest.