Everything you missed in June from Hold That Thought

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Here is everything I shared in the Hold That Thought weekly newsletters this past month to help you turn overthinking into expert thinking:

1. “Does it make sense?” It's the number one question I get from creatives, coaches, and small business owners. So I came up with a great way to get a real answer.
2. There's a word for this feeling — a 15-minute TED Conferences talk by Adam Grant (Stick around for the whole thing, if only for the Mario Kart theory of peak flow!)
3. Make peace with feeling less ambitious from strategist and speaker Dorie Clark in Harvard Business Review
4. Knowing where you are not — a small moment of insight from a coaching session last week.
5. Until recently, there’s been a huge gap between what you see and the way it feels. How I avoided the post-presentation vulnerability hangover
6. “It is never a mistake, just an expensive present” — Rui Yi Gan on the Second Arrow of Suffering
7. I enjoyed every bit of this recent newsletter by Sahil Bloom — from the overflowing cup parable, to advice about breaking bad news, lessons from bees, and more.
8. The Goose in the Bottle by Oliver Burkeman , author of Four Thousand Weeks
9. A new one from me about how to overthink better at work
10. 4 things you should know about anger by Nick Wignall at The Friendly Mind
11. The Lighthouse Map of Overthinkers is a global project by Meredith Arthur at Beautiful Voyager to remind each other we’re not alone in becoming our strongest selves.
12. In the run-up to launching Sense Check, I've been sharing non-obvious practical tips on LinkedIn. Like this one about naming your calendar events. Or this one about getting the order right. Or the two types of email I aim for.

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Each week I also include at least one unthinking link…something small and easy to delight the mind. Such as this one minute park. Or the anti-life checklist.

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Kim