Epilogue
As you can imagine, I watched a lot of commencement speeches in the course of writing this book. Some were humdrum, some were funny – often hilariously so – some really were inspirational. Some surprised me – people I thought would have a lot to say and say it well – and who, IMHO, did neither of these things.
There are two I would want to take with me to a desert island, two that I would happily sit through any time.
One was my all-time favourite – the late Steve Jobs at Stanford.21
The other – and a close second – was a wonderful one by Admiral William H. McRaven of the US Navy. McRaven commanded the US Special Forces mission against Osama bin Laden. You might not like the somewhat peremptory tone of it – he can be forgiven, I ...
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