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Ask HN: How to cope with the “Fear of missing out”?
I'm kind of addicted to Reddit, Hacker News etc. and refresh them quite often because I might miss something.
How does on get out of this habbit?
- twobyfour 9y ago1) accept that you're never ever going to be able to absorb all the news, even in one narrow field, even if you spend 80 hours per week trying to keep up with it. 2) ask yourself what's the worst thing that could possibly happen if you missed an article or comment that didn't make it to (or didn't stay on) the front page. 3) find an alternative habit to fill those minutes between tasks at work or when you're killing time at home. A puzzle game on your phone, a book to read, a project to work on. 4) force yourself (via content blockers or just disconnecting from the internet) to avoid reading those sites for a day. Afterwards check in with yourself and notice that nothing's wrong. Do it again, for 3 days this time. Then a week.
- Powerofmene 9y agoDisconnect from the sites for a day or more. So you miss out on a bit of news, what is going to happen? If you stay connected nonstop it is not likely you are really paying focused attention to the content. Balance is critical in everything we do.
- Artlav 9y agoBy arriving at a realization that there is more things out there than there are hours in a day, so unless you make a time machine you can't explore it all. Don't push it too far, however - i dread opening HN because there would be plenty of interesting things there that i can't hope to make myself within one lifetime, so i rarely ever visit now.