Fear Of Missing Out

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How do you deal with the fear of missing out (FOMO)?

I am experiencing this daily. It paralyzes me, to where I have trouble making decisions.

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By not fearing that I’m missing out.

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I don’t think I am missing out on anything, so therefore I don’t fear it.

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maybe irl but definitely not in wow after 17 yrs. i’m lucky to even get the energy to log in nowadays.

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Are we talking about bitcoin?

I don’t FOMO. Most mythic transmogs will be obtainable one day.

I didn’t FOMO the brutausor, I must admit at the end I felt it a bit, but figured they’d be everywhere and I’ve been running to Org AH for 17years.

And I never FOMO for limited mounts.

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Missing out on what exactly? I have all I want or need.

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Step 1: stop thinking and just do stuff. Step 2: repeat.

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I just stop playing the game.

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You cant do anything unless you sell your soul to a known “dealer” !

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I play the game for fun. The only FOMO is the fear of missing out on fun.

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I ask myself this:

Do I actually want this? Will this change my gameplay in any meaningful way? Do I actual even like this thing? Or is it my brain tricking me into thinking I want this thing because human’s like new things?

Usually it’s the latter.

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Tobacco and Distilled spirits are never the answer, but they take my mind off the question

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I only FOMO expansion openings. When everything is fresh and new and the servers are slammed and stuff is breaking. So, I strive to be there when the servers open on launch day and the first week before the game goes back to the its empty shell.

During, I only have a Fear of Falling Behind if I manage to miss a week of Doing Something. But ,last week save for keeping up on my adventure tables, I didn’t do a thing. Yet, here I am. Content.

So. Can’t be that important.

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Can’t be FOMO if you never unsubbed that’s how you resolve that part

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By realizing the fear of missing out is why you are missing out - just go do stuff, you’ll miss other stuff, but at least you didn’t miss it sitting on your rear worrying about it- you missed it because you were doing something else you wanted to.

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By knowing that there is a wall that everyone is going to hit and during that time, if i fall behind, I’ll catch up then and thus in all reality, not be missing out on anything

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"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all his favorite bars, men, in red woolen shirts were getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know."

This is from Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas. When I was younger I’d sometimes worry about the fun that I wasn’t having, and I’d think about this line.

If you have trouble making decisions… flip a coin. :slight_smile:

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Not givin’ a flip if I miss something. FOMO is still garbage and I’ll never support it though.

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By not participating.

If they have to rely on FOMO to try and convince me to do something, then it wasn’t worth doing in the first place.

I may just be one person, but if I don’t participate that’s one less person in their user metrics and thus one less person they can show to the money-grubbing higher-ups who think FOMO is a great motivator.

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Yea, WoW really feeds off of this particular insecurity in society with how they structure day to day tasks. I do feel like I am missing out when I skip callings on alts that need valor or whatever. It’s how they do it.