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Health Care 95% M Peace 94% M The economy 93% M Inflation 92% M Money 92% M Family 92% M Food Safety 91% M Sleep 90% M Free speech 90% M Food 90% M Government spending 88% M United States Constitution 87% M Democracy 87% M Due Process 86% M Local news 86% M
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MrBeast 91% NM Celebrity 88% NM Taylor Swift 87% NM Dating 87% NM Diet Coke 85% NM Tom Hanks 84% NM The Beatles 83% NM Star Wars 82% NM Ultimate Fighting Championship 81% NM Major League Soccer 77% NM Extraterrestrial life 75% NM UFOs 74% NM Starbucks 73% NM Sneakers 73% NM Popular Culture 73% NM
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Palestine 50/50 Birthday 49/51 The arts 51/49 True Crime 51/49 Movies 49/51 Chocolate 48/52 Sports 52/48 Social Media 47/53 Israel 54/46 Ukraine 54/46 Epstein files 54/46 LGBTQ Rights 46/54 Gardening 54/46 Hantavirus 46/54 Comedy 54/46
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Sports
SPORTS
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Marc Foreman says sport does not matter: "I've never been a sporty person. My hand to eye coordination is awful...I tend to lose track of who's doing what...I prefer a book over watching a sports game any day."

9mo

Does SPORTS matter to you?

Kat
Kat
Sports
SPORTS
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Kat insists sport matters: "You become so much stronger... sport teaches you so many things... if you can transform your body through commitment and movement, you can change your life."

10mo

Does SPORTS matter to you?

Self-confidence
SELF-CONFIDENCE
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Scott believes self-confidence matters: "I know the power of it, and I know how hard it is if you don't have it."

1y

Does SELF-CONFIDENCE matter to you?

Book
BOOK
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Heather Johnson says books do not matter: "Books are heavy...What am I proving because I can read a book? I don't need to read a book."

10mo

Does BOOK matter to you?

Book
BOOK
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Renas Raza says books matter: "Movies are great, but a book you just, you can use your own imagination with the characters and how they look and how, yeah, just the overall books yes matters. I can go on and on, so I'll stop myself."

10mo

Does BOOK matter to you?

Pet
PET
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Avelyn says pets matter: "They definitely teach you how to take care of something, because when you're a child, you're very self-centered."

11mo

Does PET matter to you?

Contract Law
CONTRACT LAW
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John Fuhrman says contract law matters: "You want that reviewed by somebody who's competent... just because you sign a contract doesn't mean it's a good contract."

10mo

Does CONTRACT LAW matter to you?

Goal setting
GOAL SETTING
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DJ values goal setting only if the goals are authentic: "As long as they're your goals, when you understand whose goals there are, cool you're doing because everybody setting the goals, it doesn't matter."

1y

Does GOAL SETTING matter to you?

Sports
SPORTS
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Heather Johnson says sports matter: "Go hawks, go Vikings. I'm all about my Indiana fever. Woohoo."

10mo

Does SPORTS matter to you?

Cornell University
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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Cornell University was where I started to really become much more aware… where I feel like I’m okay, I can thrive.

5mo

Does CORNELL UNIVERSITY matter to you?

Astrology
ASTROLOGY
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Renas Raza says astrology matters: "Whenever I meet someone, I'm like, oh, what's your sign?... what's today's astrology? How is the day gonna end up?"

10mo

Does ASTROLOGY matter to you?

Mood (psychology)
MOOD (PSYCHOLOGY)
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Renas Raza says mood matters: "We should listen to our mood and we should not ignore it just because we feel like we need to please the person in front of us. So listen to your mood, respect your own gut feeling, your emotions, and go about your day in that way because you are the one that's gonna go home later and rethink what you just said or did, or how your mood was."

10mo

Does MOOD (PSYCHOLOGY) matter to you?

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

6mo

Does TRAVEL matter to you?

Francesca Percival
Francesca Percival
Politics
POLITICS
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"Politics is scary."

1y

Does POLITICS matter to you?

Travel
TRAVEL
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Alex Ranahan says travel "enriches you... gives you that sense of wonderment... reconnecting with the fact that we are a global community as opposed to just feeling isolated."

5mo

Does TRAVEL matter to you?

Resilience
RESILIENCE
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Jolene says resilience matters: "Resilience is that ability to bounce and not break...the finish line is only where we say it is."

6mo

Does RESILIENCE matter to you?

Video Game
VIDEO GAME
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Though not a player herself, Melissa says Video games matter as "a release" and "stress reducer" for many, even recalling executives using them to "build camaraderie" across the country.

4mo

Does VIDEO GAME matter to you?

Chris Singel
Chris Singel
Data privacy
DATA PRIVACY
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Data privacy matters, but less than people expect. Everyone who wants your data probably already has it and more than you expect, so that issue already has sailed.

5mo

Does DATA PRIVACY matter to you?

Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Greg says Artificial intelligence "definitely matters" and is "unavoidable at this point." His organization uses it for grant proposals, foundation research, and reporting on the administrative side.

3mo

Does ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE matter to you?

Travel
TRAVEL
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Cathy says travel is "important because it helps us to get out of our little bubble" and made her "independent, confident, innovative."

4mo

Does TRAVEL matter to you?

Kat
Kat
Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Kat says AI matters: "It'll help you... in business and your personal life. Maybe I just using it for business, and it helps me a lot."

10mo

Does ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE matter to you?

Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Melissa says Artificial intelligence "absolutely matters," especially in marketing and healthcare, noting marketers were "some of the first people to leverage AI" for graphics, editing, and analytics.

4mo

Does ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE matter to you?

Music
MUSIC
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Jennifer says music matters: "Music is one of those things that cultural anthropologists say came up really early on in how we organized ourselves as groups and communicated possibly before language."

10mo

Does MUSIC matter to you?

Nutrition
NUTRITION
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"You are what you eat, and food and nutrition can actually be a source of burnout if you're eating the wrong foods."

1y

Does NUTRITION matter to you?