“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.

The term is the full form of "fear of a better option." In an interview with HuffPost, author and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis coined the term and described what it means. McGinnis said ...

[Read: Americans need to party more] When the author and speaker Patrick McGinnis coined the term FOMO, he didn’t consider the fear a sinister force. He was a wide-eyed business-school student ...

Patrick is a venture capitalist and the author of Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice and the host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens. Patrick coined the ...

“FOBO is a serious problem that can inflict far more damage than FOMO,” McGinnis noted. “Unlike FOMO, which is largely an internal struggle that mostly hurts you, the costs of FOBO aren’t just borne ...