Mental masturbation

Are you someone who frequently gets an ‘A-ha!’ moment but never gets around to executing it? Do you often find your mind racing with a bunch of ideas that keep you up all night? Do you have lots of lofty goals, but find the action part boring and less stimulating?

The ‘a-ha’ moment that comes when engaging in mental masturbation can be addictive. When you get an idea, you spend a lot of time finding the ‘missing piece’ that will make everything fall into place. Remember, our brains are naturally attracted to symmetry, neatness, and finality – even when reality is, in fact, much messier.

Perhaps your life starts making a lot of sense when you imagine the success that a certain project will yield. All of this feels really good until the time actually comes to start the work.