The Fear of Missing Out – on good times, a party, a gig – has infiltrated the workplace and our adult lives. Claire Cohen, a long-time FoMo sufferer, examines the phenomenon that we should have left behind in the playground.
``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
The current trend in productivity books, personal coaches and bloggers [...] is to stuff more and more things into each idle hour, until you are working all waking day. But you don’t need to move really far to find some other kind of advice: In a book published in 1910, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett already suggested that you need to claim several hours a week for improving yourself.