Fancy life lessons and career advice from the world’s most enlightened leaders? Then take a seat, grab your notebook and lean in…
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Over in the UK, the day you graduate from university is usually celebrated by dressing up like an extra from Harry Potter, enduring some awkward chat between your parents and your ‘Tequila Tuesdays’ crew and, if you’re very lucky, marking the occasion with a meal in the local Wetherspoons.
In the US, they take graduation to another level. To see their departing students off into adult life, universities invite guest speakers to impart their wisdom – and when we say speakers, we don’t mean some two-bit career coach or local dignitary. We’re talking A-list movie stars, Silicon Valley billionaires and actual First Ladies – people whose life advice you genuinely want to listen to.
The good news is you don’t need a six-figure college fund and an acceptance letter from Harvard University to benefit – we’ve done the hard work for you and watched dozens of them.
Here are the lessons worth learning…
J.K. ROWLING
WHERE: Harvard University, 2011
BEST FOR: Those times when you feel a bit like you’re snorkelling through golden syrup in life.
VIBE: The world’s richest author reminds us that in her late twenties she had ‘failed on an epic scale’ as a newly divorced, jobless single mother. But hitting rock bottom was also when she ‘stopped pretending’ – and finally pursued her writing ambitions, knowing she had nothing to lose. She credits failure with revealing an inner strength and discipline and ‘stripping away the inessential’ in life.
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