Warren Buffett’s net worth is $87.3 billion today, but he didn’t make his first billion until age 50.īuffett, like many successful people, found a process that works, stuck to it, and kept tweaking it achieve results that make us drop our jaws in awe. “I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.” –Lionel Messi By doing less, we focus on what matters, make progress, and experience less FOMO. In his stellar article, Tim Ferriss explained that not-to-do lists are more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance because what you don’t do determines what you can do.īy doing more, we get stuck in the “activity trap”. It’s not the daily increase but the daily decrease. The more things you say no to, the more time and space you get to do what you really want to do. He (and Apple) abandoned 1,000 great ideas to meet one big goal. “Chances are the consequences of saying no are much more in our heads than in reality,” she said. – Derek Siversīut through research, Vanessa Bohns noted that people don’t take no as badly as we think they well. Putting away your smartphone will create tiny empty spaces in your life which you can fill with meaningful work. But overdoing it makes us miserable because we compare others’ highlight reels to our behind-the-scenes. Scrolling through social media gives us an instant kick of dopamine: the pleasure hormone. Here are few simple steps which successful people follow 1. To lead a meaningful life, we must break up with FOMO. Our relationship with FOMO is perpetual but toxic, left with a confused mind, making wrong choices with damaging outcomes. This is the genesis of Fear of Missing out. When you cede to herd mentality, you lose confidence, ability to exercise choice, as you are left with none. This indirectly influences us to do what the group is doing, ceding space to herd mentality rather than what’s important to you. This is a reflection how we have formed nations which divide us geographically, Social, Cultural groups you follow which mould our preference’s and thinking. We as individuals feel a need to belong to a group, society etc. You can add more once you introspect decisions taken under the pressure of FOMO. Herd Mentality, borrowed conviction, greed, the inability to say “no”, peer pressure, and many more reasons. Anxiety gets compounded when a herd is following a direction which you don’t take.
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