It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
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It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
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It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, but I’m breaking with tradition and posting a non-TED talk. It’s an excerpt of a longer commencement address given at Kenyon College in 2005 by the late American novelist David Foster Wallace. When I came across the video, nine days after it was posted on YouTube, it already had over four and a half million views; I decided I needed to share it here. The link to the full talk, and the book by the same name, is below the video.
*update May 28, 2013 – I guess somebody was unhappy, and the video I originally shared was pulled for copyright infringement. Too bad. I’ve found another version of the talk, broken up into part 1 & 2 (without the great visuals of the one I first posted).
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Brainpickings.org: This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life