How To Be a Grown-Up

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this special episode, Daniel Pink delivers a commencement address, Stanford-dean-turned-bestselling-author Julie Lythcott-Haims shares her manual for being an adult, and Arthur C. Brooks provides his roadmap for finding success, happiness, and purpose in the second half of life. Next Big Idea App: Download our app today at www.nextbigideaclub.com/app

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:06.4	I'm Rufus Griscom, and this is the next big idea.
0:10.4	Today, you're never too old to grow up.
0:30.0	This year, around 4 million kids will graduate from college.
0:37.0	You may be one of them.
0:39.0	You may know one of them.
0:40.0	You may even attend their graduation,
0:42.0	where you'll have the pleasure of sitting in a folding chair
0:45.0	and listening to an eminent speaker dull out cliches.
0:48.0	Some of these speakers offer up commandments.
0:51.0	Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and anything as possible.
0:54.0	Others issue thinly veiled warnings.
0:57.0	You are the future.
0:59.0	Don't screw it up.
1:00.0	And a few just crack open the dictionary and say things like,
1:03.0	Maryam Webster defines fortitude as a strength of mind
1:07.0	that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain
1:10.0	or adversity with courage.
1:14.0	Not all of them are that bad.
1:16.0	I've seen some genuinely inspiring commencement addresses on YouTube.
1:20.0	But most of the speeches I've heard in person
1:23.0	have been more insipid than inspiring.
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