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On Our Longing to Matter | Rebecca Goldstein
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- The Courageous Life
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- Jan 15, 2026
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- 3450
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Summary
There is a primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: The longing to matter. In her revelatory new book: The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us, MacArthur Fellow, National Humanities Medalist, and bestselling author, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Weaves powerful insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, To persuasively argue that our need to matt...