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David Foster Wallace — The Truth With A Whole Lot Of Rhetorical Bullshit...
Adapted from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. (Also see this remixed video of the talk.) A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend...
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Neil Gaiman – One Of The Best Commencement Speeches Ever
Although Neil Gaiman never attended college, he gives one of the best commencement speeches ever. This is right up there with the Steve Jobs and David Foster Wallace commencement speeches. People who...
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Atul Gawande — Failure and Rescue
The following was delivered as the commencement address at Williams College on Sunday, June 3rd. We had a patient at my hospital this winter whose story has stuck with me. Mrs. C. was eighty-seven...
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Neil Gaiman — Make Good Art
Neil Gaiman, gave one of the best commencement speeches ever. It was so good, it was one of the top posts on Farnam Street in 2012. While the speech was full of useful wisdom, one of the best parts,...
View ArticleThe Man In The Arena: Citizenship In A Republic
Remember this the next time your criticize. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit...
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Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Acceptance Speech on Working Alone
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.” Solitude is an important aspect toward accomplishing great things, creative or otherwise. In fact, it’s one of the commonalities found amongst the routines of...
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Gabriel García Márquez — 1982 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.” Gabriel García Márquez was believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers. Two of his books, Love in the Time of Cholera...
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10 Life Lessons From a Navy SEAL
“If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.” Naval Adm. William H. McRaven delivers an amazing University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address. Returning...
View ArticleSteve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” If you were to make a list of the best commencement addresses ever, you’d find this one from Steve Jobs up there with the likes of David Foster Wallace, Neil Gaiman, and...
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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
Below is an audio copy of Charlie Munger’s famous 1995 talk on the psychology of human misjudgment (transcript). Munger, for those of you who haven’t heard of him, is the irreverent partner of Warren...
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