Mammalian brain · Emotional Priming
Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
The anxiety that others are having rewarding experiences you are not; it links unmet needs to compulsive checking and to fast yeses on anything framed as closing.
An everyday example
Joining a cohort, a drop or a round because everyone in your feed seems to be.
What it can cost you
Decisions driven by the imagined regret of exclusion rather than by the value of inclusion.
Warning signs
- Everyone seems to be doing it.
- I cannot name what I would miss.
One thing to do
Write what you would actually miss, concretely; if the answer is 'being in it', that is the FoMO talking.
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