What actually matters right now?

"Shoes definitely matter. Always been a special interest, right from as long as I can remember... Sometimes I'll just look at them and like to look at them. And shoe shopping is lots of fun. And you never grow out of shoes."

"I really love lacrosse. I'm a right defenseman. ... It's football, but you have to be a little bit more athletic to know where the ball is and where your stick is. And I wish more people played it. It's really fun."

Lyndsey says dogs matter: "First of all, they're cute, and then second of all they're woman's best friends."

Angela Fuller says gymnastics matters because "it teaches you grit and resilience" and "gives you so much self-confidence." She calls it "the best sport ever."

Lyndsey says celebrity gossip does not matter: "People will tell me, I'm like, I don't care. Aaron T. Beck is my celebrity crush."

Avelyn says mental health super matters: "Life's a journey and being healthy and having people to help you through it is a big deal."

"I don't personally play pickleball, so I'm gonna say doesn't matter, but I know it is very helpful for people who do play pickleball."

DJ shrugs off coffee: "Humans will always find some sort of substance or something that'll get 'em going. So if coffee ain't it, they'll just drink tea."

John Fuhrman says pets matter: "I've always had animals around... it's the best therapy, 'cause you work out everything and you're taking care of the animals."

Heather Johnson says mental health matters: "I go to a therapist, I don't care. I'll say it all day long."

Lyndsey says therapy matters: "I truly believe that everyone should be in therapy at some sort of capacity, even if it's just going once a month."

Misty says relationships matter: "We need people in our life. We need love... I'm a sucker for love. So obviously relationships are important."

"The American society is a melting pot, which I think means that there's not one specific dream that we should all follow. So the American Dream, no, not really. I don't think that matters, but I think Americans and their dreams definitely do."

Jennifer says counterculture matters: "To have culture, you need counterculture. You need people pushing the edges and breaking things apart and having different ways of looking at whatever it is in culture."

Andrea says travel "definitely matters" for children—"any kind of adventure is grand."

Ella admits memes matter: "I'm always doom scrolling on TikTok. Laughing at memes."

Jennifer says pizza matters: "Pizza is local too, so pizza reflects local culture, so it matters." She adds, "I love all pizza... there's not been pizza that I've met that I haven't liked."

Mary loves Pickleball, calling it "one of my favorite things to do right now" and "a great way to exercise and have fun."

Allen Spence says the stock market "matters a lot" because "a lot of people have their retirements, their pension, a lot of their wealth is tied up" in it.

Matthew says video games matter now as "a way for me to connect with my kids...it's a gateway and a bridge for me and my kids."

Marc Foreman says shopper marketing matters: "I'm living proof. It's the whole example of going in for one thing and coming out with 10. That's all shopper marketing...geniuses at work...know exactly how to put stuff together to make it really pop."

Valentina says Books matter deeply: "I'm a writer myself" and her personal collection focuses on her expertise in "mindset, human behaviour and habits."

Grant finds effective altruism fascinating but says, "is it in my top seven? Absolutely not... after I'm done with this, I wanna like... open like a smoothie stand slash coffee shop slash thinking space."

Samantha says artificial intelligence matters: "It's a tool that could be super, super helpful...I have ADHD and it really helps with my executive functioning."