The Mattering Instinct How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us Julia Hansson Surely Connor—the team's overworked

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The Mattering Instinct How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us Julia Hansson Surely Connor—the team's overworkedBy: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026 01 13 MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter. Drawing on biology, psychology, and