Overthinking

What it is

Analysing a decision at length to the point where it hurts the result, especially for intuitive or skilled tasks.

Related

• Decision fatigue bias
  Excess deliberation is a main cause of fatigue.
• Information bias bias
  Both are about wasting effort on more analysis than the decision needs.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#90: Overthinking

References

• Wikipedia: Overthinking en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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