How Seneca’s lifestyle Helps your FOMO
The stoic philosopher Seneca can teach you how to treat your fear of missing out. It is all about stoicism.
Seneca, a Roman philosopher, and statesman who lived in the first century AD, was a practitioner of Stoicism, a philosophical school of thought that emphasizes the importance of living a virtuous life and maintaining emotional equanimity.
Seneca’s Lifestyle can Help your FOMO to Disappear
Cultivating Indifference
One aspect of Stoicism that could be helpful in dealing with the fear of missing out (FOMO) caused by TikTok is the concept of “indifference.”
Social media is often a highly curated and filtered version of reality
According to Stoicism, we should strive to cultivate an attitude of indifference towards external events and circumstances that we cannot control and instead focus on cultivating virtues such as wisdom, justice, and self-control.
In the context of FOMO on TikTok, this could mean reframing our perspective and reminding ourselves that the activities or events others participate in are not necessarily more important or valuable than what we…
