Gordon Flett
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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the other three needs as well and having a more balanced approach to life.
And it is sad that some people's need to matter, as Andrew says, becomes all consuming and all important.
And, you know, it's going to need that constant reassurance of being someone who is mattering because it's really geared and driven by a deep sense of insecurity that the lasting feeling of mattering hasn't been established earlier in life.
What do you think, Gord?
There's a lot to unpack there as well.
I think that it's a wonderful point in terms of making the connection between mattering, not just in terms of relationships with other people, but mattering in terms of the big picture.
And here I go back to the work of Fromm, who talked about how we can feel very insignificant and small in society with billions of people in the world that indeed
We are just one very small piece of the puzzle.
I think it's important to accept that, but then also to accept that you don't have to matter in terms of the big picture.
You just need to matter in terms of the people in your life or the people who could be in your life so that you can offset that sense of the feeling of not mattering, not being hugely significant in society through establishing the connections and the relationships with people.
Fromm was interesting because he really introduced the concept of reactivity to not mattering and said that, you know, once we feel small in society, we can do things that are very deleterious and add to our sense of estrangement and isolation, or we can find adaptive, proactive ways of getting a better sense of significance through what we do in terms of our daily activities.
And at the end of the day, you know, there will be times when people are struck by that sense of
wow, I don't really matter in this gigantic picture, you know, that's when we really need the support of people who do care about us.
Oh, thank you, Shankar.
It was a pleasure once again.
Kids learn from the stories.
Your book, I can't wait to actually see it.
I know it's in the mail.
Kids learn from the shared stories and also their stories.
I would say this is a great opportunity to say to kids, what's your story?
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