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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

For the Class of 2020

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Given the pandemic, high school and college commencements just won’t be the same this year. So we decided we’d have Scott Galloway, NYU professor and author of The New York Times bestseller The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, shares his advice for the graduating class of 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

0:10.4

Because of COVID-19, millions of high school and college graduates will not be getting the

0:15.8

commencement ceremony they were expecting this year.

0:19.2

Scott Galloway is a professor at NYU, and his latest best-selling book is The Algebra of

0:24.6

Happiness.

0:25.6

Notes on the pursuit of success, love, and meaning.

0:30.1

Here's Professor Galloway with a few words for the graduating class of 2020.

0:35.6

If there's one key best practice, it's pretty straightforward.

0:41.0

The largest study on happiness of its kind, the Harvard Grand Study, tracked 400 miles over

0:45.2

80 years, and they found the best practice across the cohort that was the happiest was pretty

0:50.2

straightforward, and that is the number and depth of meaningful relationships.

0:54.2

At work, do you feel respected and admired, and do you respect and admire other people?

0:58.2

With your friends, do you get a sense of joy and camaraderie, and you provide the same

1:02.2

thing to them, and at home, with your family, do you feel intense levels of love and support?

1:09.4

And just as importantly, do you know they feel that same level of intense support and love?

1:15.5

And that is the key.

1:17.5

And the first line of this academic study that distills the greatest data set on happiness

1:21.8

ever registered is very straightforward, and that is happiness is love full stop.

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Your goal as a young person is to put yourself in a position economically, spiritually, and

1:31.5

psychologically, such that you can go all in on a group of people and not love them because

1:36.8

you're getting something back, you're either getting intimacy or sex or economic partnership,

1:41.2

or you decide to love people completely and not keep score because that is the key to

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