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I just loved this wording from Tad Friend's New Yorker article about MasterClass:
"MasterClass's bespoke self-care embodies our time...it incarnates the screen-dependent YOLO FOMO of those the company calls CATS---the curious, aspiring, thirtysomethings who constitute a plurality of its audience".
When I read that, I was like "please don't let me turn into that". I'm a twentysomething, but I have some traits of this group. I've never watched a MasterClass course, but I do read nonfiction for the purpose of enriching my knowledge and I have listened to a few of the Great Courses. I'm not done with formal education, but there are subjects I know I will not be studying at the formal level that I would still like to know about. Maybe I am an "aspiring intellectual" or maybe I'm just a tryhard dilettante. Is that something to be looked down upon as pathetic? Sometimes I do feel relief in the fact that I haven't yet gone down the "self-help/wellness" rabbit hole that many people in developed countries have, but maybe all the reading I do is just another form of that. It's not yoga or meditation or therapy, but it's something I do to keep my brain alert and because I feel I get something meaningful out of it. For me, it's not about keeping up with the Joneses, but trying to stay ahead of the average Jones so I don't end up mediocre.
So...how "aspirational" are you? Do you have YOLO FOMO (you-only-live-once fear-of-missing-out)? Are you ever concerned about your life falling into mediocrity?
"MasterClass's bespoke self-care embodies our time...it incarnates the screen-dependent YOLO FOMO of those the company calls CATS---the curious, aspiring, thirtysomethings who constitute a plurality of its audience".
When I read that, I was like "please don't let me turn into that". I'm a twentysomething, but I have some traits of this group. I've never watched a MasterClass course, but I do read nonfiction for the purpose of enriching my knowledge and I have listened to a few of the Great Courses. I'm not done with formal education, but there are subjects I know I will not be studying at the formal level that I would still like to know about. Maybe I am an "aspiring intellectual" or maybe I'm just a tryhard dilettante. Is that something to be looked down upon as pathetic? Sometimes I do feel relief in the fact that I haven't yet gone down the "self-help/wellness" rabbit hole that many people in developed countries have, but maybe all the reading I do is just another form of that. It's not yoga or meditation or therapy, but it's something I do to keep my brain alert and because I feel I get something meaningful out of it. For me, it's not about keeping up with the Joneses, but trying to stay ahead of the average Jones so I don't end up mediocre.
So...how "aspirational" are you? Do you have YOLO FOMO (you-only-live-once fear-of-missing-out)? Are you ever concerned about your life falling into mediocrity?