FOMO is a feeling somebody else is making money off. Notice who.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Feeling that you are missing something is manufactured deliberately, because a person who feels behind buys, scrolls and refreshes. It is not a fact about your life, it is a product with a business attached to it. Seeing the mechanism does not dissolve the feeling, and it does reduce its authority.

Next time it hits, ask what you were doing right before it started and who benefits from you feeling this way. Then go back and finish what you were doing. The feeling passes considerably faster once it has been named.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who profits when you feel behind on a Friday night?

MORE IN PERCEPTION & ATTENTION

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.