“If you want to avoid feeling FOBO, you have to separate what you want from what you do to try to get it,” McGinnis said.

However, there’s no way to guarantee that, and instead, people may will wait so long they actually start to lose good options and end up wishing they had made a choice sooner. “FOBO usually ...

Those afflicted by Fobo, he says, will typically find themselves overwhelmed by the possibilities of what could be, even when no outcome is guaranteed, and therefore are likely to hold back on ...

The concept of FOBO is based in what he described as “an erroneous belief that the longer we look, the more options we will have, and this will somehow lead to a better outcome.” However, there’s no ...