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9 ENTRIESDenzel Washington’s 2015 commencement address at Dillard University is often reduced to a sequence of motivational clips. In the full setting, the actor presents faith, gratitude, purposeful risk and disciplined effort as.
Matthew McConaughey’s University of Houston commencement speech is remembered for its thirteen life lessons. The useful reading is not to treat each point as a slogan but to examine how they fit together: defining success.
Oprah Winfrey’s 2008 Stanford commencement address approaches success through intuition, response to failure and the responsibility to give back. It is easy to remember the celebrity arrival and gifts to the graduating class; the.
Sheryl Sandberg’s 2011 Barnard commencement address encouraged women graduates to pursue leadership while acknowledging the barriers they would encounter. Its central tension is between institutional inequality and the internal.
Denzel Washington delivered the University of Pennsylvania's 2011 commencement address under the title ‘Fall Forward.’ Using humor, memories of his acting career and examples of repeated attempts, he argued that fear of failure should not preven
Radio host Celeste Headlee's TEDxCreativeCoast talk takes the unusual position that a good conversation is not mainly about finding impressive things to say. Drawing on years of interviewing people, she argues for curiosity, attention, concise a
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant's TED@IBM talk ‘Are You a Giver or a Taker?’ explores how people approach helping and exchange at work. His categories—givers, takers and matchers—offer a memorable lens for thinking about team culture. But
Sound expert Julian Treasure's TEDGlobal 2013 talk explores an everyday frustration: having something important to say but failing to hold an audience's attention. His answer combines the ethics of communication—how we treat listeners—with the p
An original guide to Steve Jobs’ June 12, 2005 Stanford commencement address, its three stories, career lessons, and the official university text.
