Introduction ix
Section I Fear and Indecision in an Overwhelming World xix
Chapter 1 A Brief History of FOMO 1
Chapter 2 Your FOMO's Not Your Fault 11
Chapter 3 More Than a Meme 29
Chapter 4 The Other FO You Need to Know 39
Chapter 5 The Sad Tate of the Man Who Got Everything He Wanted 47
Section II The Hidden Cost of Fear 67
Chapter 6 The Billion-Dollar Business of FOMO 69
Chapter 7 FOBO, the Anti-Strategy 85
Section III Decisive: Choosing What You Actually Want and Missing Out on the Rest 101
Chapter 8 Freedom from Fear 103
Chapter 9 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff 111
Chapter 10 FOMO Is for the Planets, Not the Sun 129
Chapter 11 Choosing Action over Option Value 141
Chapter 12 Missing Out on the Rest 155
Section IV Making FOMO and FOBO Work for You 175
Chapter 13 Going All In Some of the Time 177
Chapter 14 Game of FOs: Dealing with FOMO and FOBO in Other People 195
Epilogue: We're Lucky to Have Options in the First Place 205
Author's Note 211
Acknowledgments 213
Notes 217
Index 227
About the Author 235