India, Feb. 23 -- What have we got to prove? And to whom? We tend to over think a lot about what others think of us, especially while we're growing up. But even later, we do succumb to the pressure of being "with it" and not left out, so to say.

I, for one, used to be deeply concerned about the impression that I was conveying to people around, and the construct in their minds that they were probably building about me. Gradually, by pegging away, and rousing up my confidence, incrementally, I was able to diminish, though not vanquish, this sense of worry about "what will people think?"

The fear of missing out or FOMO is a huge factor at play in people's minds today. The sense of not being one of the crowd, being left behind, being a lagg...