.............(now what am I really supposed to do?)
How many of us remember our own graduation speaker or even their message?
In this powerful performance, actor, producer and playwright, Jim Jarrett stirs things up for students who are sitting on the verge of life-with-a-capital-L. As a commencement speaker, he challenges the students to take a look at what’s really important and, in so doing, likely becomes a commencement speaker we’ll remember for quite a while to come.
Graduation Day’s appealing motivational approach is one of positive, uplifting, soul-baring challenging honesty -- yet it also shakes one's self-perception up and is not what the students will come in expecting. The experience will remain with them long after the curtain has come down, and cause the students to ask themselves some serious questions along the way.
Jarrett adds, “Some kids have just spent the worst four years of their lives while for others, it’s been the greatest experience ever. My intention of Graduation Day is twofold - to provide hope and balance for those who’ve suffered daily humiliation during their four years and for those who were blessed with “a great hand” to challenge them to “play their cards” as gracefully, as fully and as humbly as possible.
In other words, to challenge every single one of them to figure out why they’re here, in spite of the hand they’ve been dealt so far because the world doesn’t need any more mediocre people. We need extraordinary, great people. Now, more than ever.”
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