FOMO and FOBO: when these unpleasant effects prevent us from building a career

Increasingly, the term FOMO (feeling of missing out) is being heard in the professional environment, a feeling as if you are missing something. Something “important and interesting” passes by, causing anxiety and anxiety. Unlike FOMO, when we are chasing everything, with FOBO (feeling of better option), on the contrary, a person actually does nothing, hoping for the best option, which will facilitate decision making. FOMO thinking is already more or less known, its fellow FOBO is a new, but already real phenomenon.

How do these fears affect careers, and can we use them to our advantage?

“I can’t live in peace, everyone around is successful and wealthy, and I’m overboard. It seems like something is coming right out from under my nose, but I can't find what it is. That's why I work non-stop. I feel almost exhausted, but I can not rest. I think I miss opportunities and while I sit still, others take my peaks. In this message from one of the participants in the TELEGRAM chat dedicated to the restoration of resources, there is a connection with the FOMO syndrome, but another question is interesting.

It seems that everyone understands that social networks have made someone else's life as open as possible and at the same time far from a complete reflection of reality. Against the backdrop of many vivid examples, their own results may seem less worthwhile. However, it is not only the content of social networks that provokes FOMO.

The author of the abbreviations FOMO and FOBO, venture investor Patrick McGinnis, in his book FOMO Sapiens, writes that the impact of this syndrome is much more serious, and it affects not only the lives of millennials and Generation Z, but also their parents.