Fear of Missing Out: Practical DecisionMaking in a World of Overwhelming Choice

What are you really missing out on?Youre home on a Friday night, scrolling through Instagram, ready to go to bed.You see pictures on your timeline of a party you were invited to, but didnt go to. You were confident when you said no, but now you cant stop thinking about it, and you start feeling worse.You have FOMO, or, Fear of Missing Out.Coined in a Harvard Business School article, FOMO has become a global term to describe the decimating anxiety when thinking other people are having better, more fulfilling, experiences than you are. Its a natural, biological response, but that doesnt make it feel any better. Amplified by the rise of social media, #FOMO has become a cultural crisisso whats the cure?Patrick McGinnis, creator of the term FOMO, has been thinking about it for seventeen yearsand he has a solution: decision-making. Learning to weigh the costs and benefits of your choices, prioritizing your decisions, and listening to your gut are central to silencing FOMO and its lesser-known cousin, FOBO: Fear of a Better Option. After all, dont you want to feel comfortable and confident in your decisions?Written with self-evaluations throughout the book, Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice helps you ascertain and eliminate the parts of your life that are causing more anxiety than happiness.So give this a read, and then go to that party, start that new book, create a new goalor dont. Make that decision, and be confident in it: its the first of many of its kind.