Sunday, July 1, 2012

A Navy SEAL's wise advice to graduates

Tufts University brought Navy SEAL Eric Greitens to address the 2012 graduating class.  It's not often that elite universities honor military service members with commencement addresses. Here's an excerpt: 
Many commencement speakers today tell students to "Dream big" and "Do what you love." It may be feel-good career advice, but it's incomplete life advice. Greitens said it this way: "The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. ... We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs."
Read more at CNN. (Thanks, Brandon!) 

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

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