Bill Burnett

Pay attention.

Reflect on what you're learning.

You know, hey, how's it going?

Oh, yeah, I binge-watched Game of Thrones all night last night again.

What'd you do?

That's not that interesting.

It's like, well, I was talking about Robin.

She's talking about there's 14% of the lives I'm living as well as the ones I'm not.

I'm really thinking about that.

And they kind of go, oh, say more.

What's going on with that?

So if you're leaning into and living your life and paying attention to it, get curious, talk to people, try stuff, tell your story.

You got to move from FOMO to JOMO, from the fear of missing out to the joy of missing out.

So people think the reason I have FOMO, right, fear of missing out, some cool thing goes by like, you know, oh, oh, wow, oh, we should have done that instead.

Shoot, I missed it, says the person who has FOMO.

The phrase I missed it acts as though the world is a scarce place and there's barely enough to make an it of your life.

And if you missed a little bit of an it, you are now diminished.

Wrong.

Seeing something cool go by you haven't got time to do just reminds you the world is a target-rich place and you are a highly capacious creature who could be interested in so many more things than you have time for.

Isn't that great?