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Reply To: A cure for FOMO ?

February 7, 2022 at 8:23 pm #1714753

limburger

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yes … very tricky to pin down, especially when you consider all the marketing tricks that are used against us.
(but that’s a free will discussion for the more philosophical amonst us 😉 )

Even the bootcamps were a bit of a FOMO event … and at the same time I had enough fun to consider them worth every penny, because I got to fly for the first time in my life and see the BoW HQ up close.

If I were to use the ‘literal definition’ then I must say that the bootcamps were the only actual FOMO impulse buys on my list.
Everything else was more me not daring to limit myself to just one game (and one army ).

With kickstarters I can defuse the FOMO by simply ticking the box that sends me an e-mail 48 hours before the campaign finishes. If I still feel like backing at that point then I kind of have proven to myself that wasn’t afraid of ‘missing’ out.

Although even then it can be hard to resist the ‘just one more game for my collection’ thought.

I think the best anti-FOMO advice is to force yourself to wait at least X days before pushing the ‘buy stuff’ button.
Give yourself time to really think it over and consider how that new thing would fit within your current games.

If that pushes yourself outside of that “limited time / buy now …” window that the ads are screaming about then so be it.
Learning to accept that you can’t have everything all the time can be tricky, but it is a useful thing to experience.