The Best Advice the Class of 2023 Will Hear

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

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 Did a pro football player just tell grads marriage and kids are more worthy than a career?

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0:00.0	With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview on John Stone Street with a point,
0:04.6	commencement addresses are often filled with life and career advice.
0:07.5	Oprah Winfrey told University of Southern Cal grads a few years ago to,
0:11.0	"'Become so fantastic at what you do, your talent cannot be dismissed.'"
0:14.8	Steve Jobs told Stanford grads in 2005 to always listen to their inner voice.
0:19.7	What few Saturdays ago, two-time Super Bowl champion kicker Harrison Bucker, or the Kansas
0:23.8	City Chief, gave very different advice in a commencement address to Georgia Tech grads.
0:28.7	Quote, "'I don't care if you have a successful career in the end, no matter how much money
0:32.2	you attain, none of it will matter if you're alone and devoid of purpose.
0:35.6	I can offer one controversial antidote that I believe will have a lasting impact for generations
0:40.5	to come.
0:41.5	Get married and start a family."
0:43.1	He went on to say that no temporary happiness, not even winning the Super Bowl, compared
0:47.0	with what he found as a husband and a dad.
0:49.0	This could be the best advice that these grads could ever hear.
0:52.4	But the Goldstone Center on John Stone Street with a point.

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