Accept That You’ll Miss Out
FOMO is baked into being human. You can’t experience every career, every place, every version of yourself. So choose deliberately.
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If you live to 80, you get around 4000 weeks. That’s it. And yet we act like we’re immortal, hoarding goals, chasing hacks, fearing missing out. Burkeman’s book is a wake-up call: not to do more, but to do less, better. The goal isn’t control , itself meaning
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FOMO is based on lies
When you feel FOMO coming on, remind yourself that practically every image you see on practically any screen is likely misleading.
The human experience depicted by the media is never the whole truth — and often an outright lie.
Nothing is wasted
With each creative rebirth, you bring into being a new version of yourself. It is powered by all the skills, experience, and knowledge you have accumulated along the way.
Every attempt, failure or success has something to teach you.
The fear of missing out (FOMO)
FOMO = the compulsive desire to experience something (or be somewhere) motivated by the fear of what you will potentially lose. And this idea of loss is usually imagined. FOMO is that irrational belief that everyone is always having more fun than you, at all times.
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