Have you ever watched your teenager sit in front of a writing task for ten minutes...
...only to write three brilliant paragraphs in the final twenty?
When I first started teaching, this puzzled me.
I assumed the strongest students would start quickly.
The opposite was often true.
Some of my highest-achieving students were also my slowest starters.
At first, I worried they lacked motivation.
Then I realised something important.
They weren't doing nothing.
They were thinking.
The Hidden Difference Between Thinking and Overthinking
Thinking is helpful.
Overthinking is exhausting.
The trouble is, from the outside, they can look exactly the same.
A teenager sits quietly.
They haven't written anything.
A parent naturally assumes they've become distracted.
But inside their head, something very different may be happening.
They're asking themselves:
"Should I use this example?"
"What if there's a better idea?"
"Is this introduction good enough?"
"Maybe I should start again."
"What if my teacher doesn't like this?"
Instead of moving forwards...
They're trapped in an endless cycle of decisions.
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