{"id":3104,"date":"2018-05-28T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:28:18","slug":"advisory-fodder-two-graduation-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Advisory starter: two graduation speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abby Wambach at Barnard College: <\/a><\/p>\n

Segment one: <\/p>\n

In that locker room, I learned that in order to become my very best\u2014on the pitch and off\u2014I\u2019d need to spend my life letting the feelings and lessons of failure transform into my power. Failure is fuel. Fuel is power.<\/p>\n

Women, listen to me. We must embrace failure as our fuel instead of accepting it as our destruction.<\/p>\n

As Michelle Obama recently said: “I wish that girls could fail as well as men do and be okay. Because let me tell you watching men fail up\u2014it\u2019s frustrating. It\u2019s frustrating to see men blow it and win. And we hold ourselves to these crazy, crazy standards.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Segment two: <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s important. You are allowed to be disappointed when it feels like life\u2019s benched you. What you aren\u2019t allowed to do is miss your opportunity to lead from the bench.<\/p>\n

During that last World Cup, my teammates told me that my presence, my support, my vocal and relentless belief in them from the bench is what gave them the confidence they needed to win us that championship.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not a leader on the bench, don\u2019t call yourself a leader on the field. You\u2019re either a leader everywhere or nowhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Segment three: <\/p>\n

As you go out into the world: Amplify each others\u2019 voices. Demand seats for women, people of color and all marginalized people at every table where decisions are made. Call out each other\u2019s wins and just like we do on the field: claim the success of one woman, as a collective success for all women.<\/p>\n

Joy. Success. Power. These are not pies where a bigger slice for her means a smaller slice for you. These are infinite. In any revolution, the way to make something true starts with believing it is. Let\u2019s claim infinite joy, success, and power\u2014together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ira Glass at Columbia Journalism School<\/a><\/p>\n

Segment one: <\/p>\n

And as for me \u2026 there\u2019s this thing the drummer for the Who once said that I relate to a lot. His name was Keith Moon. And when he tried to explain what he did for a living, he once said: \u201cI \u2026 am the greatest \u2026 Keith-Moon-type drummer in the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Segment two: <\/p>\n

I am very aware that I make my living with a weird grab bag of skills that probably shouldn\u2019t add up to anything. My primary skill is that I\u2019m a good editor. That\u2019s the main thing I do all week. From the start it was the one thing in journalism I had a natural talent for \u2026 an easy command of. I also have a bunch of showbizzy skills that go into packaging material into a program \u2013 pacing and flow and humor and emotional arcs. Stuff I learned basically in high school musicals and as a teenaged magician at children\u2019s birthday parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Segment three: <\/p>\n

For those of you who feel like your work still isn\u2019t at the level of skill that you want it to be, I can offer this: I started at NPR when I was 19 \u2026 and was not a decent writer or reporter until a decade into it. Editing I could always do. But those other skills were hard fought and didn\u2019t come easily. I was 36 when I started This American Life, 17 years into doing this.
\n <\/p>\n

It can take a long time to be as good as you want to be.<\/p>\n

And be kind to yourself, during that period. And work hard.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Segment four:
\n(While he’s talking about journalism, he could be talking about anything…) <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait. Make the stuff you want to make now. No excuses. Don\u2019t wait for the perfect job or whatever. Don\u2019t wait. Don\u2019t wait. Don\u2019t wait. One of the advantages of being a journalist is you don\u2019t need permission. You can go and run down the story now and then find a home for it. Pay someone you respect – pay a friend – a little money to be your editor and the person you talk to about your next steps. Don\u2019t wait. You have everything you need. Don\u2019t wait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abby Wambach at Barnard College: Segment one: In that locker room, I learned that in order to become my very best\u2014on the pitch and off\u2014I\u2019d need to spend my life letting the feelings and lessons of failure transform into my power. Failure is fuel. Fuel is power. Women, listen to me. We must embrace failure … Continue reading Advisory starter: two graduation speeches<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note","category-teaching-2017_2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-O4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}