[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 ...

“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. “Specifically, you must avoid the temptation to keep returning, over and over ...

The concept of FOMO is widely known these days ... choices when making a decision,” author and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis told HuffPost. “This specifically refers to decisions ...

Patrick J. McGinnis 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 .

The concept of FOMO is widely known these days ... to commit to existing choices when making a decision,” author and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis told HuffPost. “This specifically refers to ...