Dr. Laurie Santos

sure it necessarily needs to fit in. I mean, I think one of Uishi's views is that there are these different paths, right? The kind of path that you get from hedonic pleasure is just going to look different than the path that you get from meaning, but then it's also going to look different from the path that you get from this idea of living a psychologically rich life.

sure it necessarily needs to fit in. I mean, I think one of Uishi's views is that there are these different paths, right? The kind of path that you get from hedonic pleasure is just going to look different than the path that you get from meaning, but then it's also going to look different from the path that you get from this idea of living a psychologically rich life.

By what she means, I think having adventures, doing interesting things, learning new stuff, which is different than doing the kind of hard work that you need to do to develop a very meaningful life. It's very different than what you would do if you just want to get pure hedonism, easy kind of hedonic life.

By what she means, I think having adventures, doing interesting things, learning new stuff, which is different than doing the kind of hard work that you need to do to develop a very meaningful life. It's very different than what you would do if you just want to get pure hedonism, easy kind of hedonic life.

By what she means, I think having adventures, doing interesting things, learning new stuff, which is different than doing the kind of hard work that you need to do to develop a very meaningful life. It's very different than what you would do if you just want to get pure hedonism, easy kind of hedonic life.

I see mattering as being maybe part and parcel of all three, but I think it doesn't necessarily have to For sure, mattering is part of the meaningful things you do in life, right? I think mattering is really intimately connected to our sense of meaning. Often when we do something, often when we feel like we matter, we've done something that also can give us a sense of meaning.

I see mattering as being maybe part and parcel of all three, but I think it doesn't necessarily have to For sure, mattering is part of the meaningful things you do in life, right? I think mattering is really intimately connected to our sense of meaning. Often when we do something, often when we feel like we matter, we've done something that also can give us a sense of meaning.

I see mattering as being maybe part and parcel of all three, but I think it doesn't necessarily have to For sure, mattering is part of the meaningful things you do in life, right? I think mattering is really intimately connected to our sense of meaning. Often when we do something, often when we feel like we matter, we've done something that also can give us a sense of meaning.

If we're devoid of meaning, it's really hard to matter. You might have connections with people, but if you really feel like you're living a meaningless life, that mattering is maybe going to be lower than it should be. I think mattering does play into the hedonic, like just the sort of pure positive emotion part of life because mattering feels good, right?

If we're devoid of meaning, it's really hard to matter. You might have connections with people, but if you really feel like you're living a meaningless life, that mattering is maybe going to be lower than it should be. I think mattering does play into the hedonic, like just the sort of pure positive emotion part of life because mattering feels good, right?

If we're devoid of meaning, it's really hard to matter. You might have connections with people, but if you really feel like you're living a meaningless life, that mattering is maybe going to be lower than it should be. I think mattering does play into the hedonic, like just the sort of pure positive emotion part of life because mattering feels good, right?

Often when we're doing things that matter, it winds up boosting our positive emotion, right? So it plays on that definition of happiness. And I think one way to live, like one way to matter is to make sure you're doing things that involve a certain amount of psychological richness, right? Psychological richness can sometimes come from living out your values.

Often when we're doing things that matter, it winds up boosting our positive emotion, right? So it plays on that definition of happiness. And I think one way to live, like one way to matter is to make sure you're doing things that involve a certain amount of psychological richness, right? Psychological richness can sometimes come from living out your values.

Often when we're doing things that matter, it winds up boosting our positive emotion, right? So it plays on that definition of happiness. And I think one way to live, like one way to matter is to make sure you're doing things that involve a certain amount of psychological richness, right? Psychological richness can sometimes come from living out your values.

And there's lots of ways to connect that with mattering too. So I think mattering doesn't necessarily have to fit into all three of those different aspects of happiness, but in some ways it might fit into at least a few of them. Definitely the meaning side, for sure, a little bit of the positive emotion, hedonic side, but maybe a little bit of the psychologically rich life side too.

And there's lots of ways to connect that with mattering too. So I think mattering doesn't necessarily have to fit into all three of those different aspects of happiness, but in some ways it might fit into at least a few of them. Definitely the meaning side, for sure, a little bit of the positive emotion, hedonic side, but maybe a little bit of the psychologically rich life side too.

And there's lots of ways to connect that with mattering too. So I think mattering doesn't necessarily have to fit into all three of those different aspects of happiness, but in some ways it might fit into at least a few of them. Definitely the meaning side, for sure, a little bit of the positive emotion, hedonic side, but maybe a little bit of the psychologically rich life side too.

Well, I think if you think of mattering as being part and parcel of healthy social cognition, right? So the healthy part of being part of the village or having these kinds of good connections, those connections really mattered over our evolutionary time. We really needed to like, the only way we survived was being part of this group.

Well, I think if you think of mattering as being part and parcel of healthy social cognition, right? So the healthy part of being part of the village or having these kinds of good connections, those connections really mattered over our evolutionary time. We really needed to like, the only way we survived was being part of this group.

Well, I think if you think of mattering as being part and parcel of healthy social cognition, right? So the healthy part of being part of the village or having these kinds of good connections, those connections really mattered over our evolutionary time. We really needed to like, the only way we survived was being part of this group.