"Forget the sex drive, the death drive, the biological imperative to survive and reproduce. According to the philosopher and novelist Goldstein, what really sets humans apart from other species is our desire to matter. Drawing on thinkers from Descartes and Wittgenstein to William James, “The Mattering Instinct” makes a provocative case that an instinctual belief that we are deserving of attention, from ourselves and others, motivates our behavior — for good and, sometimes, ill." https://t.co/5ZG0A4reLu