Behind all FOMO is the fear of missing out on what life has the potential to deliver to each of us. Since we don't know ourselves fully enough, there is a general kind of anxiety — "I'm missing out on something." Let's identify what we are really missing. And the process is of negation and rejection. Reject what is not needed. If the inner rubbish can be cleaned up, you realize — that's all.
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Questioner: Sir, my name is Vibhor, and for the past year, I've been working as a software engineer in Bengaluru. My question is: what have we been taught — to run after something in this past phase of life? And what I feel is full of FOMO and distraction, due to which I find myself lost and distracted. So I wanted to ask — how can I align my career and ambition with inner satisfaction and contentment?
Acharya Prashant: You said FOMO?
Questioner: Yes sir.
Acharya Prashant: We are all indeed missing out. But do we realize what we are missing out on?
It's like one's house is on fire, that's the reason there's nothing on the TV, because the entire house is ablaze, and he feels that he is missing out on the cricket match, a huge FOMO; the phone is luckier—it happens to have an internal battery—so he says, you know, everybody is right there, some of them are there in the stadium itself, others are enjoying the live stream, I'm the only unfortunate one missing out, missing out—on the cricket match, and the house is on fire.
