This from a Canadian paper
University graduation season is increasingly upon us which means that students and their families will soon be subjected to commencement speeches full of self-help platitudes, empty “you do you” affirmations and left-wing jargon about gender, privilege and identity. These shallow ideas and superficial rhetorical devices have come to mostly define the modern commencement speech...
There is one exception though: former Indiana governor, turned-Purdue University president Mitch Daniels
As he outlined in his 2019 speech, one may in theory be able to live a life free from tough decisions, but it will necessarily be a “safely inconsequential life: run no risks, confront no injustices, accept no roles of leadership.” This simple yet profound idea is something that our own leaders need to hear“ Certainty is an illusion. Perfect safety is a mirage. Zero is always unattainable, except in the case of absolute zero where all motion and life itself stop.”
...business, university and political leaders — would also benefit from heeding Daniels’ consistent calls for leaders to lead rather than delay, deflect or obfuscate.