Respected Faculty Members and my dear course fellows

Asslam u alaikum.

Today my topic for thought of the day is OVER THINKING.

My dear friends
Overthinking is one of our worst enemies because it’s something that makes us hold back our
potential ideas and thoughts.
So many things are just created by the mind to stop us from achieving our full potential.
“Overthinking is actually the art of creating problems that are not even there”.

As said by Winston Churchill

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his
deathbed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which had never happened.
Today You are also about to hear a strange but a true story about the Harry Houdini, the master
magician who was famous for mind-bending illusions. He Once claimed that he could break out
of any jail cell in the world. All he had to do was walk into that jail cell with his street clothes on.
Well a very old jail down south, heard about Houdini’s claims and they accepted his challenge.
On the day of the event, many people gathered outside.
Very confidently, Houdini walked right into the jail, and into the cell, and they shut the metal
door behind him.
The first thing Houdini did was he took off his coat. Than very strangely he took off his belt.
Secretly hidden in Houdini’s belt was a ten-inch piece of steel, and he started working.
in about 30 minute that confident expression Houdini had when he walked in disappeared. In
one hour he was drenched in sweat. And at the end of two hours Houdini collapsed against the
door. Which than opened. It opened because the door has never been locked.
But that’s not entirely true is it? That door was locked. It was firmly and thoroughly locked in
Houdini’s mind.
The mind is power full.
Dear fellows
How many doors in your life do you think are locked but actually are not?
How many times have you been stuck in the mental prison of overthinking? For something
that really had a simple solution.
There is an ancient African Proverb that says
When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.

Your mind is the most powerful force you will ever face.
It will tell you lies.
It will tell you, you can’t do that
You are not meant for that
You are not good enough for that, you can’t go on anymore, you don’t have the energy.
Your mind will create all these mental barriers that will stop you from success and growth.

But You must thank for its opinion and carry on.
Because like as Houdini showed us the only locked doors that exist, are in your own mind.
The doors in reality are open and all you have to do
Is walk through.
Dear friends as it is now concluded that overthinking is actually a special form of fear. This fear
is exaggerated and becomes worse when mixed with anticipation, anxiety, imagination and
emotion. Learn to accept things as they are. Ask the Almighty to constantly guide you. And
What you can’t control, let Him take over.
Thank you all for listening to my presentation.