Feeling Big, Feeling Small The Human Yearning for Significance and Wonder

Blending psychology with insights from biology, development, culture, religion, history, and mental health, the book introduces a theory of Dynamic Magnitude: the idea that human flourishing depends on our ability to move fluidly between striving for significance and yielding to forces greater than ourselves. Through vivid examples drawn from everyday life, art, love, parenting, politics, extremism, ritual, and belief systems, the authors show how modern societies have come to privilege Bigness while neglecting the human need for Smallness. They explore how imbalance between these states fuels burnout, polarization, addiction, anxiety, depression, and radicalization, while their healthy alternation underlies creativity, intimacy, resilience, and meaning. Rather than offering self-help prescriptions or single-factor explanations, the book provides a unifying lens that connects personal psychology with larger cultural and historical patterns.
Written for psychologists and social scientists, this book also speaks to a wider audience of intellectually curious readers―students of culture and history, philosophers, clinicians, and thoughtful observers of contemporary life―interested in how inner experience, social forces, and meaning-making intersect.

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