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If You Want To Be Inspired By Failure, Have I Got The Graduation Speech For You

We’ve been doing it all wrong. Professor George Saunders tells us why in his commencement speech at Syracuse. At 1:50, he talks about monkeys in a truly horrifying way. At 4:39, he gets to the point. At 6:33, he speaks about solutions.

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