#168 A Social Experiment in Thinking for Overthinkers

Nice to meet you.
I am Kamemo🐢.

Starting today, I have decided to pin this note as a featured article once again.

For the past 165 days, I have been putting my thoughts into words, one article every single day.
I have been expressing what I am thinking.

About work.
About human relationships.
About my own weaknesses and hesitations.
About the subtle discomforts that catch my attention in daily life.

At first, I started this as a practice to get the thoughts inside me out into the open.
But as I continued, the meaning of this note gradually changed.

It is not just about recording thoughts,
but a place to think even more deeply by bringing my thoughts out into the open.

That is what this note is to me now.

What I write about in this note

In this note, I am experimentally putting the thoughts of my overthinking self into words.

The themes are life, work, growth, habits, human relationships, and self-understanding.

Instead of letting the vague feelings and discomforts I feel in daily life
just drift away, I try to put them into words for a moment.

When I do that, I sometimes find that hidden within what I thought were just worries
are the values I want to cherish and hints for how to live my life from here on.

This note is a place to record that process.

Who I want to read this

I am writing this note especially for people like this.

・People who overthink and find it hard to take action
・People who often ruminate alone about work or relationships
・People who want to be positive but find it exhausting to force themselves to be
・People who are a bit lost about how to work or live from their late 20s onwards
・People who want a trigger to organize their own thoughts

This is not a place to provide any grand answers.

Rather, I want this to be a place where we can think together
about the things that cannot be answered immediately.

What I put into the name 'A Social Experiment in Thinking'

The theme of this note is a social experiment in thinking.

Taking what I was thinking only to myself and putting it out into the world.
Putting it into words and making it into a form that others can read.
Observing how my own thoughts change in that process.

That is a small experiment for me.

I am not writing this to state the correct answer,
but to try putting my thoughts out there while they are still in progress.

Therefore, the writing here is not a finished answer.

It is a record of what I, as I am now, have thought in my own way.

For first-time readers

If you are reading this for the first time, I think you will get a better sense of the atmosphere of this note if you start by reading these.

• #1 A Social Experiment in Thinking

• #84 Overthinking was not a weakness

• #92 Looking back at my March posts, they were actually connected

For those lost in their work or how they work

How to perceive work.
What responsibility is.
What it means to work with someone.
How to incorporate your own voice into your work, not just the results.

These are articles where I thought about such things.

• #161 To 'have' a job is to put your own voice into it

• #162 When you imagine the face of someone happy, work becomes fun

• #153 Having a job might mean noticing your own sense of discomfort

• #143 "It's not for me" might just be an assumption made before trying

For those who want to think about human relationships

Acting for the sake of others.
Not being swayed by others' reactions.
Building relationships where you can talk with peace of mind.
I am thinking about how to interact with people, both at work and in my private life.

• #69 People encounter their own thoughts by speaking

• #100 I want to be someone who connects through trust rather than credit

• #163 Even if you act for someone else, your value is not determined by their reaction

• #164 Influence is not about what you say, but what kind of atmosphere you create

• #158 I thought about the difference between expectations and imposition

For those who want to deepen their self-understanding

What do I want to value?
Why do I care about what others think?
Why do I feel like I have to "do things properly"?
I am gradually observing the habits of my own emotions and thoughts.

• #122 I felt relieved once I realized that I could change the meaning of the same event

• #44 I think how you spend money is a sense of life

• #85 I think the meaning of studying lies in "liberal arts"

• #138 While being a "good person," have you lost sight of your own life?

For those who want to read about growth and challenges

Rather than changing drastically, keep going little by little.
Pause.
Find your own lessons from failures and feelings of discomfort.

I am putting those daily accumulations into words.

• #2 The toughest and most growth-inducing challenge of 2025

• #151 People who broaden their world are increasing their drawer of experiences

• #144 Growth hasn't stopped; the yardstick for growth just no longer fits

• #133 There is no graduation from personal growth

How to read this note

I would be happy if you started by reading articles with titles that interest you.

There is no need to read them in order.
It is fine to just pick up themes that feel close to you right now.

"I can relate to this way of thinking a little."
"How would I think about this myself?"
"I was struggling with something similar recently."

If it serves as a trigger to organize your own thoughts in that way, that is enough.

Finally

After continuing for 165 days, what I think is that
overthinking is not necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, there are times when you think too much and become unable to move.
There are times when you feel anxious.
There are times when you make yourself suffer.

But if you put those thoughts into words little by little,
you may be able to see what you truly want to cherish.

That is why, from now on,
instead of denying the part of me that overthinks,
I want to continue putting those thoughts into words, one by one.

I hope this note
becomes a place where overthinkers
can feel a little more at ease when they pause.

From here on, every day, one by one,
I will continue to experimentally put my thoughts into words.

If you like, please start by reading an article that interests you.