The greatest commencement speech
Many of you may already know “This is Water.” For those who don’t…
I encourage you to watch David Foster Wallace address the graduating class of 2005 from Kenyon College in Ohio. Some key takeaways:
Be aware of our default settings - learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
Choose how you construct meaning from experience.
If you really learn how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful but sacred. On fire with the same force that lit the stars: Love, Fellowship, the mystical Oneness of all things deep down.
Tragically, David took his own life in 2008…may God continue to embrace you in His arms and shower you with His love, David.