I'm not sure about other's amount of thought processes, but there are ways to lessen their impact. Mindfulness meditation helped me recognize and not engage with those thoughts, takes practice but it helps keep your mind on what you're doing rather than other things. Admittedly I haven't kept up with it but I did notice an improvement when was.

No way to actually stop the thoughts as far as I know and to be able to let the thought pass without spending time on it takes practice. Also you tend to fail at it a lot but even then you catch it more quickly to move on.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For me, personally - and I say that because everyone's different - I don't dislike that this happens unless it's the usual "remembering that embarrassing thing you did when you were 10 years old" trope. It's the incredulity that others don't have to deal with this constantly running background track in their heads.