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The Mattering Effect: Creating a life of Meaning and Worth

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A guide to address the urgent crisis of our time-the loss of significance in our lives-by restoring mattering as the missing link between personal well-being and collective repair.

John R. Miles argues that many of today's most common struggles-burnout, anxiety, loneliness, and disengagement-are not personal failures or mindset problems. They are the result of unmattering: the gradual erosion of felt significance within modern systems that reward performance while overlooking presence. Drawi...