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Instead of just linking to a 24 min video can you share what part was awful?

• rayiner 4y ago
  > When I went to college I went to a very small college called Sarah Lawrence, back in the middle ages. I had a professor who became very well known. His name was Joseph Campbell and he exhorted us all to follow our bliss. Do what you love, follow your bliss and you will truly be successful. It was great advice, except when I graduated from college I hadn't a clue what I really loved. I had no bliss to follow. When I look at all of you today I think many of you do know what your bliss is. Graduate school, or medicine or law or biology, ecology, sociology. How about none of the above? How many of you in this graduating class truly know what your bliss is? Raise your hands. Isn't that interesting. Not that great a number. How many of you do not know what your bliss is? Raise your hands. Don't be afraid. Most of us don't. I didn't find my bliss until I was in my 30s and then by luck. That's another story. It’s just individualistic dreck.
  • onos 4y ago
    This is the hierarchy of needs. Western society has been wealthy for a few extra generations over Asian. Paying the bills just isn’t enough for many of us to feel our life was well spent at this point. Possibly it’s decadent and a sign of decay.
    • rayiner 4y ago
      > Possibly it’s decadent and a sign of decay. Yes. As an immigrant from a third world country it’s actually quite scary to me that the current generation of Americans probably couldn’t have built the society they inherited from their ancestors.
  • cyberlurker 4y ago
    Basically just “find something you are passionate about so you enjoy your career”. Meh, seems harmless in a commencement speech and not race/culture specific advice.