#035 - Nirish Shakya talks to his coach Kim Witten PhD. Kim shares her journey from working in the design industry in San Francisco to pursuing a PhD in sociolinguistics in the UK. Kim shares her insights on how to turn overthinking into a superpower by reframing it as curiosity. She emphasises the need to be curious and non-judgmental when experiencing negative emotions, and to try to befriend them. They also discuss the importance of focusing on the essentials to do less but do them better and celebrating wins, no matter how small they are. Tune in to this enriching conversation about managing anxiety, focusing on values, and achieving success.
In this episode:
- Importance of slowing down, noticing, and accepting one's feelings and bodily sensations
- Treating oneself as the user of one's own life
- Noticing patterns and using tools like affinity mapping to make sense of them
- Giving ourselves grace in the process
- and much more!
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How to go from Overthinking to Expert Thinking by Kim Witten
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Four Signs That Separate Deep Thinkers From Over Thinkers by Jano le Roux
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Illustrations by Isa Vicente
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Music by Brad Porter
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04/27/23 • 91 min
Design Feeling - From overthinking to deep thinking with Kim Witten
Transcript
Kim Witten: [00:00:00] I, um, I'm a lifelong overthinker. I've been overthinking everything for at least four decades. And, uh, as I gained more tools, knowledge, skills, I started to realize that this maybe wasn't such a bad thing that it was a skillset that I was just applying perhaps very poorly, maybe on the wrong topics. What if we could take all of that skill but actually apply it for a better pursuit, something that serves you better. Uh, so from that perspective, overt
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