The inventor of Amazon.com gave a really good convocation speech to the class of 2010 at Princeton. He focused on the difference between the gifts you’ve been given and the choices you make.
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
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Kev, love this. do you have a link to the full text. Working from My phone I can’t tell.
Check the post out from your desk or click on the beginning of the first sentience from your phone. That’s the link.
KEV! you can ask the kids my ‘song’ I’d sing to them about making choices…. I love this and will look for the whole speech on line and send it to them.
You have got to tell me the song!