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How to deal with FOMO (Fear Of Missing out)
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Perspective shift.
Imagine zooming out of your body, into the sky, looking down at all the people and land and everything.
You can't keep up with all that, right? But is most of it really worth much? Is a squirrel eating a nut over yonder really all that important?
Your attention is always limited in scope, but it's existing in a nearly unlimited world. So you have to manually constrain it with your own conscious decision-making. Goals are helpful in this.
Can also help to relieve the FOMO on actually genuinely important things to you by setting up a nice system that feeds you the news you want. There's lots of services.
One thing that honestly helped me with this was watching this video about the size of everything in our observable universe.
It's this type of thinking that helped me reduce my indecision. When I'm faced with a huge menu, I try to go with my first instinct instead of waffling, reminding myself that there's no way to experience everything, but I'll have more time to experience more if I spend less time paralyzed by choice.