From, “10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You,”
by Charles Wheelan, 4/20/12, The Wall Street Journal:
I became sick of commencement speeches about your age. My
first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. Every spring, I
would offer extraordinary tidbits of wisdom to 22-year-olds—which was quite a
feat given that I was 23 at the time. In the decades since, I've spent most of
my career teaching economics and public policy. In particular, I've studied
happiness and well-being, about which we now know a great deal. And I've found
that the saccharine and
over-optimistic words of the typical commencement address hold few of the
lessons young people really need to hear about what lies ahead.
Saccharine: sickeningly
sweet; ingratiating; overly sentimental
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