Re: so much to think about...
When you're first getting started you learn to pick up on a lot of things. Experience at the table is just as important as any book you can read and after you play thousands of hands you'll start developing good instincts and reads.
A lot of people here move on to multitabling an enormous amount of tables and thats where you stop reading people and start playing an ABC game of poker. At this point there's not really much thinking before taking action and it's pretty robotic, compared to focusing on one or two tables.
As for instincts, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. I don't like to rush into a call/fold, and sometimes have to replay the action in my head and realize that my first instincts have a good chance of being wrong. In other sports you don't get the luxury to think as long as you want, so in poker you want to capitalize on that and really focus if you have a big decision in front of you.
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