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  • Fear of Missing Out

  • Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice
  • By: Patrick J. McGinnis
  • Narrated by: Patrick J. McGinnis
  • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Fear of Missing Out

By: Patrick J. McGinnis
Narrated by: Patrick J. McGinnis
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What are you really missing out on?

You’re 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 didn’t go to. You were confident when you said no, but now you can’t 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. It’s a natural, biological response, but that doesn’t make it feel any better. Amplified by the rise of social media, #FOMO has become a cultural crisis - so what’s the cure?

Patrick McGinnis, creator of the term FOMO, has been thinking about it for 17 years - and 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, don’t 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 listen, and then go to that party, start that new book, create a new goal - or don’t. Make that decision, and be confident in it: It’s the first of many of its kind.

©2020 Patrick J. McGinnis (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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Great book to stay alert

I will most likely implement a lot of what is being talked about in this book. I particularly enjoyed the part about realizing what you have to have to in fact have fomo. Also the part about learning to miss out was very eye opening. Will need to listen to it again.

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So badly wants us to know he came up with FOMO

I can't remember if there was good content. Just that he really wants us to know he was the one he coined the term.

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