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The Light Watkins Show

208: The Worst Commencement Speech Ever? Behind the scenes of Chris Pan's Viral Graduation Address at Ohio State

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Light Watkins Show, Light reconnects with Chris Pan, the founder of MyIntent and VOMO, for his third appearance on the show. Known for his mission-driven initiatives that spread the power of intention and promote emotional wellness through music and movement, Chris recently delivered a commencement speech at Ohio State University that garnered intense public scrutiny.Chris Pan's speech at Ohio State was anything but ordinary. Intended to offer unconventional wisd...

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To me it was about getting curiosity even if it necessarily wasn't fully understood.

0:10.0

My main goal was to leave enough impact or plant enough seeds so that people may come back and

0:15.3

refer to the speech down the road.

0:17.1

Because it takes people multiple exposures to understand a concept.

0:21.4

So I just assume I'm one of the touch points. I talk about

0:25.2

singing and then somebody else talks about singing and then somebody else talks about it

0:28.0

and then they're like oh I should sing or intention setting right I talk about it

0:31.9

maybe they hear it at yoga class maybe they hear it on the news, and then they start practicing it.

0:36.5

I just thought of this as just another touchpoint for these three concepts I was trying to get everybody to do.

0:42.8

And that was also really important to me,

0:44.2

which is I think the world has too much lectures

0:46.9

and not enough labs.

0:48.1

We hear all this stuff, but if we don't put it into action,

0:50.5

we don't get any of the benefits.

0:51.6

So to me, it was really important that we did the activities together. We set the intention, we say, we moved, and that's why I put in the magic trick.

0:59.0

Because I wanted something that could engage people and it's memorable.

1:03.0

There's too much information coming at people where if you're not a little bit unique,

1:06.5

you'll just be forgotten.

1:07.5

What's the saying again?

1:08.7

Tell me, show me, show me.

1:10.4

I forget, show me I remember, and involve me and I understand.

1:19.0

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show.

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