great speeches

a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)

sari and

The Road to Self-Renewal

Junto medium.com

andrea

"The Anatomy of Trust"

Brene Brown jamesclear.com

sari

Gotta give credit to NYC Mayor Eric Adams for this phenomenal speech on Israel. It’s a few minutes that everyone should watch.

Eli Klein

x.com

pphoebe

MLK vibes from nyc mayor in the wake of Hamas attack on Israel

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II

Kevin Xu interconnect.substack.com

sari

University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven

youtube.com

Alara

"Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"

Bill Gurley jamesclear.com

ssari

Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.

Fred Rogers unforgetable Emmy Award Speech ever -1997

youtube.com

simon

"Make Good Art" by Neil Gaiman

jamesclear.com jamesclear.com

sari

The world is opening up to the fact that genius does not stem from individuals like us on stage, but rather genius emerges from the collective. We are all products of our context. We are all descendants of something and someone.

And I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to

Devon Frye • Director Daniel Kwan: "Genius Emerges From the Collective"

Elena