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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: The Surprising History of Humility with Christopher Bellitto
Description: It’s graduation season, which means it’s commencement address season. Host Mike Jordan Laskey did a quick Google search for “most common words in graduation speeches,” and the top hit provided this list – which doesn’t include prepositions or other super-common words:
1. Life
2. Make
3. People
4. World
5. Yourself
6. Success
7. Generation
8. Human
There are certainly exceptions, but the standard commencement address is all about YOU, the graduates, and what YOU will do with YOUR immense gifts to find incredible success or change the world. Here’s some stuff you don’t typically hear: You’re not any more special than anyone else; no achieveme...