Eugene Mirman gives a very poignant graduation speech to his high school alma mater.
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There Is No Them
A lucky group of students from Broad Run High School in Virginia got to hear their graduation speech from Patton Oswalt, an alumni of the school. The speech is full of great nuggets. On advice and life lessons:
Advice is everywhere in this world. Your friends, family, teachers and strangers are all happy to give it. A lesson is yours and yours alone. Some of them take years to recognize and utilize. My lesson was this – experience, and reward and glory are meaningless unless you’re open and present with the people you share them with in the moment.
On the trappings of “cool”:
Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life from your life. Reputation, Posterity and Cool = Fear. Let me put that another way. Bob Hope once said, “When I was twenty, I worried what everything thought of me. When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me.” And then he pooed his pants, but that didn’t make what he said any less profound.
Check out the whole speech over at his website.
Fast, Cheap and Good: Pick Two
Tom Waits imparts some wisdom he learned from Jim Jarmusch:
“Jim Jarmusch once told me, ‘Fast, Cheap, and Good … pick two. If it
