081: The Joy of Missing Out

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard of FOMO, the fear of missing out, but what we need to do is to work to cultivate the joy of missing out. We’ll find the happiness in not following along what everybody else is doing, purposely not following the crowd, and doing your own thing. On today’s episode we are talking about where our FOMO comes from and the things that exacerbate it. We’ll also learn practices that will help us cultivate solitude and help us discover what we truly love.

What’s In This Episode:

FOMO: where the fear of missing out comes from
Exacerbating our comparison issue with technology & social media
Forming an internal understanding of ourselves and our mission in this world
Top 5 practices to cultivating solitude

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 7 of Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on using
0:07.5	productivity not just to get more done, but to accomplish what's most important. Join Tanya this
0:12.8	season as she focuses on cultivating happiness through the power of productivity. To get her
0:17.4	free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to inkwellpress.com
0:22.6	slash podcast.
0:24.6	And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:27.9	Hello, hello, everyone.
0:29.7	Welcome to Productivity Paradox.
0:31.7	I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and this is episode 81.
0:37.3	As you know, all season long, we're talking about
0:40.0	cultivating happiness through our productivity. And today, I want to talk about the joy of missing
0:46.2	out. So we've all heard of FOMO, the fear of missing out. Well, what I want us to do is I want
0:53.5	us to work to cultivate the joy of missing out. Well, what I want us to do is I want us to work to cultivate the joy of
0:56.1	missing out. Find the happiness and not following along what everybody else is doing.
1:02.0	Purposely, not following the crowd and doing your own thing. Basically, you're blazing your
1:08.0	own trail. The fear of missing out is this all-consuming fear that you're missing out in some way, perhaps
1:15.7	in what your peers are doing, what they know about, or what they're in possession of,
1:20.4	and that somehow their life is better than the one that you are living.
1:24.9	Nearly three-quarters of young adults have reported that they have experienced this feeling,
1:29.4	this fear of missing out. And this oftentimes leads to continuous checking of social media,
1:36.6	which we think will alleviate that anxiety. We do that because it feels soothing, but then it
1:42.8	really just exacerbates it. It makes it so much worse.
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