The Mattering Effect on Passion Struck with John R. Miles

What is your environment teaching your brain about worth? Throughout this conversation, Daniel explains that our brains are constantly adapting to our stress, our relationships, our habits, and the messages we hear every day. One of the ideas I've spent the last several years researching is what happens when those messages quietly tell us something else, that we're valuable only for what we produce, that we're invisible unless we perform and that our significance depends on our success. I call this the great erasure, the slow, often invisible process of disappearing in plain sight as systems reward our utility while overlooking our humanity. That's the heart of my new book, The Mattering Effect, coming this October. It's about understanding the hidden forces of systemic unmattering, and more importantly, how we reclaim our sense of worth, connection, and significance in a world too often teaches us the opposite. You can pre-order at thematteringeffect.com. If you'd like to explore these ideas even further, every episode in our new Adaptive Brain series.