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I just watched a vidio on Jon Stewart commencement address at College of William &Mary. I think it's brilliant and would like to share part of it with you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See, college is not necessarily predictive of your future success. And it's kind of thing where path that I chose obviously wouldn't work for you. For one,you're not very funny. So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? And the honest answer is this: you won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience. I was not exceptional here, and I'm not now. I was mediocre here. And I'm not saying aim low. Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president. When I left William and Mary I was shell-shocked. Because when you're in college it's very clear what you have to do to succeed. You knew what you had to do to get to this college and to graduate from it. But the unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. The paths are infinite and the results uncertain. And it can be maddening to those that go here, especially here, because your strength has always been achievement. So if there's any real advice i can give is this. College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you'll find it, and people 'll no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong.Love what you do, get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. And the last ting I want to adress is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead. I have not found this generation to be cynical or apathetic or selfish. They are as strong and as decent as any people that I have met. And I will say this, on my way down here I stopped at Bethesda Naval, and when you talk to the young kids that are there that have just been back from Iraq and Afghanistan, you don't have to worry about the future that you hear from so many that are not a part of this generation but judging it from above. And the other thing that I will say is, when I spoke earlier about the world being broke, I was somewhat being facetious, because every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly. And life gets better in an instant. I was in New York on 9-11. When the towers came down I lived 14 blocks from the twin towers. And when they came down, I thought the world had ended. And i remember waking around in a daze for weeks. And mayor Giuliani had said to the city, "you've got to get back to normal. We got to show that things can change and get back to what they were." And one day I was coming out of my building, and on my stoop, was a man who was crouched over, and he appeared to be in deep thought. And as I got closer to him I realized, he was playing with himself. And that's when I thought, "you know what, we're gonna be OK." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like it, no more comments |
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