Tightrope Thinking

I think more about something if I know less of it, and if I therefore do not have enough experience with it. With something else, like driving, or writing, I think about less, because the gap between knowing it and not is bridged by experience. Following this logic, experience replaces thinking in the pursuit of knowledge.

Think of knowledge as a tightrope. If trying to balance upon it but not sure how to, it shakes furiously, it means you are trying to think your way to its being still. Once you have crossed it many times, then crossing it again does not require thinking, because the experience you have gives you security - so the passage is less rickety.

Overthinking happens when there is a great lack of experience. The tightrope swings, because, say, you are trying to sway it and then move in the same manner with it thinking that this may help you cross it. But experience would tell you it need be still, not moving. Overthinking happens in trying to get across without knowing how but also by magnifying the insecurity of not knowing, by giving in to the fear of not knowing.

How do you cross the gap of not knowing, if you are overthinking? You must stop, for one, and trust. Then the tightrope will still. And even though there are many possibilities of what could happen once you step on, try to keep the mind still as you walk across, and all you need to know will be revealed when it will. Some thinking will still be required, but as you head along, you will gather confidence because you will be gathering experience, until such a time as it becomes fluid, the movement.

To recapitulate,
pair thinking with trust (so as not to overthink) when learning, so that experience is gained, and knowledge is gained.

Maybe it's that simple.