Beat FOMO || Acharya Prashant, International Psychology Summit (2023)

Questioner (Q) - Ok, so you talked about influences in the previous answer. So, you know as an 18 year old there is thing called FOMO, Fear of Missing Out and its like kind of being influenced but we have been told that when we are 80 when we are 90 you are gonna remember the good old days and we are gonna remember the memories we make with friends. So, like you know how do we manage both of that FOMO and the memories we are gonna make?

Acharya Prashant (AP) - No, no. Fear of Missing Out, missing out on what?

Q: Just the social aspect?

AP: Ok. So there is a lot going on and you don't want to miss out on that. Fine. That’s what you are saying?

Q: Ya, it's like you know sometimes a lot of my friends invite me out. They just go out, I don’t go out and I do have that FOMO. So, something like that.

AP: So you are afraid that later on you will feel you have missed out on something, that’s what?

Q: Like in the present you feel like you are missing out, you are not making friends and all that.