The Crucial Thing Commencement Speakers Get Wrong About Success

Ryan Holiday, Fast Company
Sat, 05/28/2016 - 2:00am

As one writer sees it, social media and commencement speeches both leave us with grand narratives that can do more harm than good.In a speech at Singularity University a few years ago, Google founder Larry Page told a rapt audience that he evaluates prospective companies and entrepreneurs by a single metric: Asking them if what they're working on is something that could "change the world."Read Full Story

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