Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to let go of meeting FOMO.

Don't consign yourself to attending more meetings than you need to because of fear of missing out.

Today's tip comes from an article in the Harvard Business Review, the Psychology of Meeting Overload.

In the article, authors Ashley Willens, Dave Feldman, and Damian Wisnowski explore reasons people plan and attend more meetings than they have to.

Even though people see meetings as, in the author's words, the number one office productivity killer.

One of those reasons for attending meetings? Meeting FOMO, the fear of missing out.

I'm guessing that part of you is saying a lot of meetings are pointless or at least pointless for some of the people there.

Why would anyone fear missing out on them?

And I'm guessing that maybe another part of you is admitting that you have sometimes gone to meetings you don't absolutely have to.

Because it stresses you out to imagine these meetings happening without you in them.

It may be irrational, but it is real.

According to the article, people are afraid they will be judged negatively.

If they don't attend meetings or that their absence won't be noticed at all.

When we equate presence with productivity as the authors put it, people hesitate to decline a meeting.

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