I like to share potent words of wisdom from time to time.
- Kelso (Yes, Ashton Kutcher…seriously).
- A commencement speech by Neil Gaiman
Here are couple more poignant ideas to add to the mental vault.
1. Fifty years ago, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Mt. Everest. He shares some pretty great thoughts about getting out to experience nature and being willing to fail.
- A Life Well Lived:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/66667105[/vimeo]
Hat tip SwissMiss.
2. I don’t know much about this George Saunders cat, but he gave a pretty awesome commencement address at Syracuse University. You can read the full speech on the New York Times, and here is a money quote Kottke highlighted…
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf – seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.
Word.
