{"id":97445,"date":"2019-10-15T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-transhuman-condition-of-fomo-the-fear-of-missing-out"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:22:47","slug":"the-transhuman-condition-of-fomo-the-fear-of-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-transhuman-condition-of-fomo-the-fear-of-missing-out","title":{"rendered":"The Transhuman Condition of \u201cFOMO\u201d \u2014 The Fear of Missing Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-transhuman-condition-of-fomo-the-fear-of-missing-out2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As noted by Dan Ariely, who is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, this \u201cworry that tugs at the corners of our minds is set off by the fear of regret\u2026that we\u2019ve made the wrong decision about how to spend our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why do such fears rule our day? Perhaps due to the fact that our lives are severely limited, and thus our experiences are confined by an hourglass. Would we reminisce of our past decisions so often if life weren\u2019t so short?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>FOMO \u2014 the Fear of Missing Out \u2014 has been an anxiety of ours since birth. Will our future endeavors provide us a cure or will we continue living and expiring with this constant psychological state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted by Dan Ariely, who is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, this \u201cworry that tugs at the corners of our minds is set off by the fear of regret\u2026that we\u2019ve made the wrong decision about how to spend our time.\u201d Why do such fears rule our day? Perhaps due [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}