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  • I've strong fomo

    1 12.50%

  • I've weak fomo

    1 12.50%

  • I've very variable fomo

    0 0%

  • I've bursts of fomo

    2 25.00%

  • I've very little or no fomo

    3 37.50%

  • My degree of fomo varies a lot by domain, time, place, etc

    4 50.00%

  • My degree of fomo doesn't vary much

    0 0%

  • Fomo is an important part of my motivation

    1 12.50%

  • Fomo is an unimportant part of my motivation

    1 12.50%

  • I've had fomo for yrs

    1 12.50%

  • I've only recently begun to have more fomo

    1 12.50%

  • I consider myself very resourceful, overall

    3 37.50%

  • I consider myself somewhat resourceful, overall

    1 12.50%

  • I don't consider myself resourceful, overall

    1 12.50%

  • I'm very resourceful in certain respects

    2 25.00%

  • I'm very not resourceful in certain respects

    2 25.00%

  • I try to balance my resourcefulness out over many things

    1 12.50%

  • I've had strong buyers' remorse

    1 12.50%

  • I rarely have buyers' remorse

    2 25.00%

  • I've never had buyers' remorse

    1 12.50%

  • I frequently have buyer's remorse

    1 12.50%

  • When I have buyers' remorse, I quickly get rid of it

    2 25.00%

  • When I have buyers' remorse, I dwell on it

    1 12.50%

  • I'm very variable when it comes to buyers' remorse

    0 0%

  • I'm mostly invariable when it comes to buyer's remorse

    1 12.50%

  • I easily regret decisions & dwell on it

    1 12.50%

  • I easily regret decisions, but quickly get over it

    0 0%

  • I often don't regret decisions

    2 25.00%

  • I'm very variable when it comes to regretting decisions

    1 12.50%

  • I dwell on decisions to attain insight

    3 37.50%

  • I dwell on decisions for other reasons

    2 25.00%

  • I prefer accuracy over speed

    2 25.00%

  • I prefer speed over accuracy

    2 25.00%

  • It's hard to decided on accuracy vs speed

    0 0%

  • I prefer quality over quantity

    4 50.00%

  • I prefer quantity over quality

    0 0%

  • It's hard to decide on quantity vs quality

    0 0%

  • This poll sucks

    2 25.00%

  • This poll is good

    0 0%

  • This poll is average

    0 0%

  • This poll should've been handled differently, in some ways

    1 12.50%

  • I'm quite trendy, overall

    3 37.50%

  • I'm not too trendy, overall

    2 25.00%

  • I'm very competitive

    1 12.50%

  • I'm not particularly competitive

    2 25.00%
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Thread: Do you have fomo?

  1. 10-05-2014, 10:16 PM #1
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    Default Do you have fomo?

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fomo
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer's_remorse
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
    http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpt...racy-trade-off

    perhaps it's easy to associate envy & "grass is greener" mentality w/ fomo. also, fomo isn't necessarily linked to social media, social media just makes it obvious & amplifies it. fomo isn't new.
    Last edited by kopyk; 10-06-2014 at 10:08 AM.
  2. 10-06-2014, 07:00 AM #2
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    Nope.
  3. 10-06-2014, 11:27 AM #3
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    I would like an extra choice like "other" as I am too lazy to read all this bunch of possibilities.

  4. 10-06-2014, 10:13 PM #4
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    Retrospective fomo, perhaps.
    “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly
    You've done yourself a huge favor developmentally by mustering the balls to do something really fucking scary... in about the most vulnerable situation possible.
  5. 10-08-2014, 05:42 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by zap View Post
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fomo
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer's_remorse
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
    http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpt...racy-trade-off

    perhaps it's easy to associate envy & "grass is greener" mentality w/ fomo. also, fomo isn't necessarily linked to social media, social media just makes it obvious & amplifies it. fomo isn't new.
    YES
  6. 10-08-2014, 01:17 PM #6
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    no, but I know some EPs who do.
  7. 10-08-2014, 01:20 PM #7
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  8. 10-26-2014, 06:55 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by zap View Post
    if by that you mean you have regret when looking back at a lot of the stuff you missed out on, then I relate.
    It still feels a lot like fear and not just regret, for some reason.
    “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly
    You've done yourself a huge favor developmentally by mustering the balls to do something really fucking scary... in about the most vulnerable situation possible.
  9. 10-30-2014, 10:46 PM #9
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    Nope, the past and future don't exist.
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