I am delighted to have Patrick McGinnis here, venture capitalist, extraordinary, but almost certainly best known for coining the term fear of missing out in an op-ed that you wrote when you were at Harvard Business School and we

will get more to that.

Just wrote a book, FOMO, same name, same thing, but really trying to wrestle with this

always universal problem that we all experience.

It is a delight to have you on the show. It's so great to be here, Greg.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start at the beginning.

For those that haven't heard it, it's hard to believe anybody hasn't,

but what is FOMO define it for us and and then tell us how it came to be?

So FOMO, short for fear of missing out, is an anxiety that we feel when we have the perception that there is something better out

there than what we're doing at the moment. And it is also stress that's created by a concern

that we may be excluded from a favorable group activity or opportunity.

Now what does that really mean?

It all means that in this time that we're living in, we look at our phones, we go online to

LinkedIn, we see what other people are doing and we think to ourselves

wow I'm just you know what am I doing with my life all these other people are doing things that are more

interesting than I am and I'm going to fall behind.

And so that is a fundamental nature of FOMO.

It's something that has been part of the human experience for a long time in one form or

another, but of course the word itself comes from the year 2003 and the story behind

FOMO is basically this. I was living in New York City right out of college college, working in venture capital, and I lived through the

tech basically implosion of 2000, 2001.

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