21st March 2025
Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinion.
Don’t worry about the opinions of the crowd..
The two big mistakes everyone makes in life are:
Worrying about what other people think about you and
Believing that other people think about you in the first place.
We aren’t really afraid of failure, we are afraid of what other people will think of us if we fail.
Here’s the truth: Nobody is thinking about you.
They’re too busy thinking about themselves.
So go do the damn thing.
If you want to be your best & perform at a high level, fear of people’s opinions may be holding you back.
Think about a time when you were extremely anxious — say, before standing up to publicly speak, raising your hand in a big meeting, or even walking through a room of strangers. The reason you felt small & scared & tense was that you were worried about social disapproval.
Our fear of other people’s opinions, FOPO, or the LKK syndrome (Log Kya Kehenge) as I call it, has become an irrational & unproductive obsession in the modern world, and its negative effects reach far beyond performance.
If you start paying less & less attention to what makes you you — your talents, beliefs, and values — and start conforming to what others may or may not think, you’ll harm your potential.
You’ll start playing it safe because you’re afraid of what will happen on the other side of the critique. You’ll fear being ridiculed or rejected.
When challenged, you’ll surrender your viewpoint.
You won’t raise your hand when you can’t control the outcome. You won’t go for that promotion because you won’t think you’re qualified.
Unfortunately, FOPO is part of the human condition since we’re operating with an ancient brain.
A craving for social approval made our ancestors cautious and savvy; thousands of years ago, if the responsibility for the failed hunt fell on your shoulders, your place in the tribe could be threatened.
The desire to fit in and the paralyzing fear of being disliked undermine our ability to pursue the lives we want to create.
This underscores why we need to train and condition our mind — so that the tail is not wagging the dog.
Stop Worrying about What People Think of You, do what you want to do & stay blessed forever.