How I Finally Dropped My AI FOMO (A little)

I’ll admit it: I struggle with it. FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out. That feeling that every day a new AI model drops and you have to jump on it now—or you’ll miss the boat. Everything is moving so fast that sometimes I just sit there wondering: how on earth am I supposed to keep up with all of this?

But recently I came across an insight that gave me some peace of mind, and I want to share it with you.

In the course Amplify with AI on mindvalley.com, teacher Vykintas Glodenis explains that he gets a lot of these FOMO questions from his students. Things like: I just saw this brand new AI model came out. I’m not using it, but it’s supposed to be the best thing on the market right now… Should I switch?

His answer is a clear “No!”:

You will reach a place where the value of your co-founder (the AI system you use) knowing you really deeply based on the long experience of this relationship that you have been building far outweighs any kind of little progress with this new artificial intelligence model on some other application.

And he continues:

So focus on building this system (relationship) as opposed to always chasing the shiny new thing in the AI market. You don’t shift your partner or co-founder every month, right? So let’s not shift our major AI tool.

And he concludes:

Great AI is not about the looks, in this case the power of an AI model, great AI is about the depth of the relationship you establish.

Wow. That hit me. Like someone flipped a switch.

It reminded me of the early days of social media. Back then, we used to try and read everything. You’d log in, scroll until you reached the point where you stopped last time, and think: okay, I’m all caught up. Until the stream got too big. The paradigm had to change. Social media wasn’t about following everything anymore. It became about dipping in, taking what’s there, and stepping out again. And accepting that you’ll miss a lot.

Someone once said:

Trying to keep up with social media is like trying to drink from a firehose.

That’s exactly how AI feels to me right now. It’s moving so fast, there’s no way to keep track of it all.

Maybe the real strength lies in letting go, or at least a little bit. You can’t follow éverything. At the same time, stay curious. Experiment. But most of all: also go very deep with the tool that fits you best, the one you’ve built experience with, the one you’ve… become friends with. That’s where you get better. And that’s where the tool shines, because you know each other.

Great AI is not about the looks, but about the depth of the relationship that you establish…

And that’s what I’m taking away from this. A little bit of calm. A reminder that it’s not only about following everything, but also about deepening what already works for you.

Where this comes from? Amplify with AI on Mindvalley.com. A lot of Mindvalley is pretty ‘manifestation’-focused and a bit woo-woo, but this course? Absolutely worth it.)