Why humans need to matter
Why do humans have this deep need to feel like we matter?
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Sean Illing talks with the philosopher Rebecca Goldstein about why “mattering” is not the same thing as being important, how the hunger for validation can go really, really badly, and the different ways we try to justify our lives to ourselves. Love. God. Winning. Greatness. Service.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Rebecca Goldstein, author of The Mattering Instinct
Chapter Titles
1:13 Why do we want to matter?
8:39 How important are other people in our quest to matter?
14:48 Wh…
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Chapters (6)
1:13
Why do we want to matter?
8:39
How important are other people in our quest to matter?
14:48
Why are we so needy?
21:08
What are the different ways to matter?
31:18
What happens when a “mattering project” fails?
32:26
What does it mean to matter in politics?
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