The Million Dollar Lecture, Pt. 2 | Success Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Listen to episode 1017 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal balance sheet is ability in the art of cooperation. This is a characteristic in which the technically trained person is often found to be lamentably weak. But I think that the weakness may be readily explained and improved upon.

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1:42.1	Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living podcast.
1:46.2	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Irwin Haskell Shell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.
2:05.6	Thank you. 20 graduating class of MIT. Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making and keeping friends,
2:11.6	the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal balance sheet is the ability in the art of cooperation.
2:22.3	This is a characteristic in which the technically trained person is often found to be lamentably weak.
2:30.3	But I think that weakness may be readily explained and improved upon.
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