Stanford Graduation Speech

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I enjoyed the Stanford graduation speech immensely (it more than made up for the debacle that was my own.)

The point is, for those of you who are interested in Steve Jobs' opinions on why bad things are good for you Snopes put it online.

Comments

[homais]

Beautiful, and yes, superior to Schultz's one (though I still insist that I liked it, modulo the unfortunate Rwanda anecdote). Given, well, everything, it made me think about one's potential to recover from failure. It made the prospect of it less scary. Always a good thing to tell a bunch of people about to get BAs, since so many of them will be doing just that over the next few years.

A lot of his specific advice, though, bothers me. Telling someone to do what they love is good, but some of the other stuff he said... how to put this? I think you can only get away with a lot of it if you happen to be a creative genius. There's no talk about what everyone else should do.

[settingshadow]

I think that the over all theme of it, though -- that you shouldn't let things get you down and keep your eyes open for opportunity -- applies to everyone.

(And I think it's unnecessary ego-stroking to have a famous alum speak at commencement, and Schulz's speech was the epitome of what I don't like about activists and I what I don't like about graduation speakers.)