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What JOMO Is and Why It is Becoming Popular<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic is credited with teaching us to adapt better to functioning in the online world. After it ended, we realized we could execute many areas of our lives just as well in the virtual world as in the real world. E-lectures, e-shopping, e-medical consultations, and even e-workouts quickly became daily practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life became more convenient, time-efficient, more productive, and effective. However, as is usually the case, every coin has two sides. Suddenly, in many industries, the boundaries between professional and private time started to blur<\/strong>. The fact that we became more readily available and efficient was, and still is, particularly valuable for supervisors. For employees, though, this was not necessarily true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maintaining contacts, establishing new acquaintances, performing subsequent duties, tasks, and ordinary daily activities in the online space is now, a few years after the pandemic, the standard and an “obvious certainty.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beginning of the Digital Crisis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We adapted<\/a> so well that we did not even notice when the situation began to spiral out of our control. We are currently at a point where we can execute most of our daily activities online. Consequently, the result of being constantly available and ready to check emails and communicators\u2014and then replying and reacting\u2014became a source of tension and internal anxiety (FOMO \u2013 the distressing fear of missing out on something online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, whatever overwhelms us eventually starts to irritate, anger, and frustrate us<\/strong>. Therefore, we face two very specific types of fatigue daily: networking fatigue and social media fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why You Should Let Go Sometimes: The Psychology of JOMO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thus, on the grounds of FOMO, a new phenomenon emerged\u2014or rather, a new social attitude\u2014reflecting the existential situation of many contemporary people, hidden under the acronym: JOMO. Interestingly, this term first appeared in circulation even before the pandemic, in 2015, thanks to Christina Crook’s book, The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it gained popularity and clarity thanks to the experiences the years 2020\u20132023 brought us. JOMO, literally translating to \u201cthe joy of missing out\/being out of time<\/a>,\u201d proved to be an antidote to overstimulation<\/strong>. It became the answer to others\u2019 constant expectation of being perpetually available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOMO Is a Conscious Choice, Not an Escape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How to Regain Peace<\/strong>? In practice, the JOMO attitude means replacing the chase for news and knowledge updates<\/strong> on the internet with a conscious choice of tranquility. We exchange the stress accompanying the internal compulsion to stay current\u2014and the fear of lagging behind others\u2014for rest and temporary “disconnection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resulting re-framing of thinking involves finding satisfaction in logging out of social media. Consequently, this means consciously giving up the excess of stimuli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attitude of “letting go of the need to be current” helps you regain control over shaping your own life<\/strong> according to your own needs, not according to the dictates of the outside world. The effect is a restoration of internal balance and achieving equilibrium between offline and online life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding Your Calm: Practical JOMO for Every Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fundamental principle is: focus on what is important to me, not on what others expect of me or what is important to everyone. The need for inner alignment has replaced the mental rat race. Likewise, satisfaction with the ability to be outside the virtual world has emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand how to regain peace<\/strong> through JOMO, it is helpful to provide concrete examples of its application in our daily functioning. This can help individuals test whether such an attitude truly helps a person rest from the influx of information and free themselves from the expectations and demands of others today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n