{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"FOMO, JOMO and beyond","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3748,"description":"Moving from Fear, to Joy of Missing Out and beyond both. \n\nFOMO arises from projection and fantasy, as does a lot of the imagined enjoyment of the imagined pleasures.\n\nWe might imagine that:\neverything we want is outside ourselves\npleasure, meaning or peak experiences must be mediated by something: people, substances, or outside events\nthat we have to follow a formula to achieve them\nWe chew over the classic cliche FOMO of music festivals, and unearth some insights: \nthe positives of turning towards your own priorities\npursuing projects and personal growth brings the greater contentment\n'projects over pleasures'\nthe pursuit of meaningful experiences on your own terms or with people you care about\nsometimes the best music experience is going mental to a good tune where no-one can see\nJoe contends that beyond FOMO and JOMO is the flow state:\nthe real peak experiences of life often occur in the flow state\nwhich has little to do with glamorous activities or what we have been told to want\nWe touch on existentialism and some key FOMO psychology:\nhumans struggle to reliably imagine their own future feelings\nto weigh the influence and impact of imagined events\nwe struggle to accurately assess what others put on social media, obviously\nbut this is also discomfort with our own choices\nwe all carry the burden of choice, of what to value and pursue\nthe existential problem of assigning meaning\nit's not easy figuring out what we really want\nit's difficult to imagine what will actually make us happy or bring contentment, and in a sense it's our life's work\nthe choice to engage in fulfilling projects is seemingly more difficult and uncertain than reaching for known pleasures\nthe boring thing is doing what we think we will be fun and assigning it a greater future value than it can carry\nthe real boredom is not always in staying home and attending to our real priorities\nWe harangue Joe to turn towards something he gets a lot of meaning from, passages from spiritual books, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JAtfDhLe02gUO4tZQPGVO8knrF2fc46Ed_F40DCEtk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNzU5LzE2OTEw/MjExMTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}