Way More Than Luck: Commencement Speeches on Living With Bravery, Empathy, and Other Existential Skills David T. Llewellyn Winner of the Samuel Johnson

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize

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invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts

Siri—is a globe trotting conceptual artist

developed the world's most famous equation

Way More Than Luck: Commencement Speeches on Living With Bravery, Empathy, and Other Existential Skills David T. Llewellyn Winner of the Samuel JohnsonThe commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their insights on living a compassionate life, the importance of taking risks, the responsibility that good fortune meritsand so many other greats. Some of this advice is grand (believe in the impossible), and some of it is granular