This is kinda hard to explain but sometimes I get so excited about something that it has the paradoxical effect of making me avoid the thing I'm excited about completely because the excitement feels so uncomfortable.

For example, I'm currently scoping my thesis topic and I've come across some stuff in the literature that sounds really cool and interesting. Now ideally that should motivate me to look into it further but instead I feel completely paralyzed and unfocussed because the excitement feels too intense and my actions somehow feel too slow and small to match it.

Another example would be being really excited about an upcoming album of an artist I like and then not being able to actually listen to it once it's out.

I hope I explained this in a somewhat understandable way.

Does anyone else experience this? How do you cope with it?