There’s fear of missing out, fear of a better option — and now there’s “FOPO,” another stress-inducing acronym that stands for “fear of people’s opinions.”
It’s human nature to care about what other people think — but letting this fear control your day-to-day can be an incredibly damaging habit that some experts believe is a constrictor of human potential.
Psychologist Michael Gervais came up with the FOPO concept — which he describes as a “hidden epidemic” — and says that people who suffer from it “lose faith and confidence in themselves and their performance suffers,” according to Forbes.
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