For the scholar, the sage and the monk, the creation of art was an act of self-actualization, and the "superfluous" tools used in the creation of art were actually essential.
A certain quietism, a sort of poised patience, is actually essential to surfing.
In fact, not only does profit not preclude a social purpose, profit or surplus is actually essential to social impact.
Fiske and Rai argue that understanding the moral nature of violence is actually essential to reducing it, because the best way to change someone's behavior is to understand what motivated that behavior in the first place.
And, as I have written previously, there is an increasing consensus that spending in a way that slows increasing inequality is actually essential for growth and that widening inequality hurts it.
And, as I have written previously, there is an increasing consensus that spending in a way that slows increasing inequality is actually essential for continued economic growth, and that widening inequality hurts it – including from bodies the Morrison backers often like to quote, like the IMF or the OECD.
Lehrer suggests that traveling and getting away from places we spend most of our time is actually essential for creativity.
It's actually essential because there are so many tricky steps along the way, whether it's the tough job market or a very lengthy career change.
In taking on the problem of agency as supposedly banished from modern science, she compels us to think about how agency is actually essential in and to nature.
You might be tempted to try to push these emotions aside, but science has found that negative emotions are actually essential for your mental well-being.
