Someone posted the link to a commencement speech given to Berkeley graduates this past weekend. It was honest, well crafted, and powerful but it struck a nerve with me. The speaker, COO of FB, used the her own life experience of surviving her husband’s death. With year 1 behind her, she described the profound sadness, shock, anger, etcetera of the year after his death and spelled out her Lessons Learned for the graduates. Her message was right on: Life will not always be good. The bad will come but your response will largely determine the degree of devastation the bad stuff will have on you. Everything she wrote/said was right on.
And yet…