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You are not special

Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 June 2012

 



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You are not special
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Knowledge LetterAppears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 144
Posted DateWednesday 27 June 2012 17:29 GDT
Posted ByDavid Gurteen
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Another inspiring commencement speech, this time from David McCullough from Wellesley High School near Boston ( I almost lived there at one time, when I worked for Lotus Development in Cambridge back in 1989 ... so long ago now).

Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view.

Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly.

Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion -- and those who will follow them.

And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.

The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special.

Because everyone is.







You may enjoy these commencement speeches too from Steve Jobs and J.K. Rowling :-)






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