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Lädt ... 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Saidvon Charles Wheelan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book, by its nature, is targeting graduates of four-year universities who, in the tradition of the middle-upper-class, have the luxury of having and making choices. And these are exactly the sorts of things that students graduating from those institutions need to hear. Give this out with David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" and your graduate will be well on the way to reality! ( ) A lot of wisdom here. Although most copies are probably purchased as gifts to graduates, the real audience for this book should be their parents, preferably while the kids are still in high school, or even younger. Most immortal passage: "Obituaries ... remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, 'Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place.'" Developed from a Class Day commencement speech at Dartmouth College that Charles Wheelan gave in 2011, this brief book contains sage real world advice. The style follows that of an actual commencement speech and is full of pithy sayings and interesting anecdotes. At a mere 118 pages, it is a quick read, leaving this reader satisfied, yet wishing there was more. The illustrations by Peter Steiner were an added bonus. They were a humorous reinforcement of the ideas and also made me wish there were more to enjoy. Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who's ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan's 101 head-turning aphorisms--backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research--set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book.Whether praising the time "wasted" in fraternity basements; mentioning that, frankly, the worst days of your life still lie ahead; or simply asking that graduates avoid wreaking the kind of havoc that others before them have, Wheelan softens his candid conclusions with good-natured charm and tales of unconventional success. With cartoons sprinkled throughout to keep things light, this volume makes a perfect gift for graduates of all ages. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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