Gordon Flett
Guest on Hidden Brain · Guest on Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gordon Flett is a Canadian psychologist and professor at York University whose research focuses on personality and mental health. He is best known for his pioneering work on perfectionism and the concept of “mattering,” the feeling that we are significant to others. He is the author of The Psychology of Mattering: Understanding the Human Need to Be Significant.
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Anne of Green Gables👍 Recommends
…recommending classic children's literature as example of mattering narrative
“I say to parents, read Anne of Green Gables with your kids, because Anne comes as an orphan, gets adopted by the people who finally see her and care about her. And then she forgoes her teaching career, because Marilla needs her, spoiler alert, after Matthew dies. And I realized at one point, that's why that story resonates with people so much. The sense of being lost, being taken in by people who care, and then sticking around to make a difference in their lives.”
on Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Tuesdays with Morrie👍 Recommends
…discussing how deep caring relationships satisfy the human need to matter
“and you know in terms of that one-to-one relationship I always come back to the famous book by Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Maury and referring to a former professor as coach and going to see him right through to his final days due to his illness as he's as he's approaching the end of his life that's I think what made that book so famous is that people could relate to that basic feeling of having somebody who cares that much about you”
on Hidden Brain