Way More than Luck
Commencement Speeches on Living with Bravery, Empathy, and Other Existential Skills
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Commencement Speeches on Living with Bravery, Empathy, and Other Existential Skills
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The commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life, Debbie Millman on the importance of taking risks, Michael Lewis on the responsibility that good fortune merits—and so many other greats. Some of this advice is grand (believe in the impossible), and some of it is granular enough to check off a life list (donate five percent of your money or your time). All of it is universally uplifting. Handsomely packaged with a cloth spine and energetic typography throughout, this book is a smart, special gift for graduates and anyone embarking on a new adventure.
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Maria Popova from the blog Brain Pickings calls it the reinvention of the secular sermon. The title is taken from the final exhortation of David Foster Wallace's speech to Kenyon College, included within, that is often referred to as “This is Water” That, along with the beautiful design of the book, is worth the price of admission. I'm just sad it doesn't have my second favourite commencement address. It's George Saunders address to Syracuse University in 2013 on the power of kindness.
