Why do people pour their lives into art no one will see, or turn to violence just to feel significant? Join philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein — a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow who has spent her career probing what gives life meaning — in conversation with David Edmonds, as she argues both impulses spring from a deep, biologically rooted longing to matter. This hunger drives our greatest achievements and ugliest conflicts alike, and we must learn to satisfy it without turning against each other.
"Rebecca Goldstein helps us to see that so much of our lives, and human history, is driven by the need to matter." – Jonathan Haidt
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