Why Mattering Matters with Jennifer Wallace

Jennifer Wallace shares about her book, Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose on episode 622 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Mattering says you belong at the table, but it goes even further, and it says you would be missed if you weren’t here. You are adding value, and we would notice if you weren’t here.
-Jennifer Wallace

We have so much input and so much output being demanded of us today that often we go through life on autopilot.
-Jennifer Wallace

Mattering is not another thing to add to your to-do list. Mattering is a way of looking at your to-do list.
-Jennifer Wallace

When you look at the data on what drives performance, it is engagement. And what drives engagement is mattering.
-Jennifer Wallace

• Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose, by Jennifer Wallace
• Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It, by Jennifer Wallace
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert D. Putnam
• Jennifer Wallace’s Website
• Mattering Movement
• Gallup-Purdue Index Report
• Nancy Schlossberg’s Transition Theory
• World Spins Madly On
• WeRateDogs – This is Sadie.
• Sign up to be a Mattering Ambassador