What each person needs to feel useful and indispensable in their social life.
He decided that what she really needed in the meantime was to keep busy and feel useful.
"It makes them feel useful, like they've been off hunting all day long, or whatever guys do."
I feel useful as a person, giving everyone a bit of knowledge and culture.
No harm in letting one of them feel useful tonight.
He also hoped to find a framework in which they could feel useful to society and needed by others.
Most important, while he was treating one of the hotel staff, David felt useful again.
She had also found a way to feel useful, running the boardinghouse.
Even as president of Skyhook he had never felt so useful.
For the very first time in her life she felt useful and important.