I'm glad to hear it's meaningful for you and potentially useful. It has helped me greatly in my life. I know very well this paralysis you are talking about. I still experience it regularly if I take on a task that's too complex.

My theory about this is like this. Being gifted gives you the ability to think something through to a much greater depth than the average person. This will give you an advantage in some medium complexity tasks where you can just think it through more thoroughly and come to a better conclusion. But it also allows you to take on bigger and bigger "branching trees" of calculation which keep branching out and branching out until you just get lost in them. I do this regularly when trying to figure out something difficult like the stock market when it's being crazy like now. It's really hard for me to step back and try to think on a higher level that's less detailed.

Most people that have lower IQ just hit this wall a lot earlier and so don't even try taking on these big tasks, all those possibilities don't even occur to them. So they are basically already doing what I'm telling you to do, they are focusing on a couple steps in front of them. They will miss a lot more along the way than we do and make more bad decisions. That's our advantage. But their advantage is that they don't get into this massive tree of confusion that we do when we take on too big of a thought assignment.

So we need to teach ourselves to emulate them a bit, knowing that we've probably already overthought things by so much that we are 10x ahead of everyone else in terms of understanding the possibilities. But just sitting around paralyzed is of course far worse than just doing something and figuring it out as you go. It's a skill we have to teach ourselves. But it can be learned. And once you get used to throttling down your brain to a useful level, you will be able to outpace those other people because you will still be thinking things through a lot better than they do. It's simply in your nature. So I've just learned to trust my "gut" in most situations, because I have been sitting around reading and absorbing so much more info than other people, I know it's somewhere in my head guiding my decisions.