Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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Good Life Project · When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, so I actually developed a kind of a checklist, a cheat sheet, so to speak, on how to tell the difference.

And in that cheat sheet, the questions that we can ask ourselves are, have I thought about this thing repeatedly over time without any solution?

And usually that's a sign that you're ruminating because when we're productively thinking, we usually get some kind of insight.

We all know that feeling.

Like you go take a shower, you stop thinking about it, and you're like, I should call this book X, right?

Like we all have those creative moments of aha.

Or, well, you know, this is what I need to say to my teenager.

Or I bet X is why, you know, why this is happening.

However...

You know, when we're caught in this remnant of lockdown state, and you can see, as on my brain scans, these areas of the brain swirling in red, on a scan, you want to see those areas in blue and green, right?

You don't want to see them swirling in red.

And when this area of the brain is locked down, it does not hook up to the areas that allow for those light bulb moments.

It does not play ball, right?

with the other areas of the brain.

And the more we know about the brain, the more neuroscientists refer to the whole brain as the connectome of the brain.

And I love that idea and that image because it isn't just about what's happening within one area of the brain and how those neural synapses are wiring and firing.

It's how they're all talking to each other as well.

And you can think of it that way, that if the brain is a giant connected network of

When we're ruminating in a negative way, it's not interfacing with the areas that we need for the productive, insightful thinking that we want to be doing in our lives.

Yeah, so we all know we have those reels that we load up over and over again.

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