Shadowing Practice: ［中英字幕完整版］畢業生必看！泰勒絲在紐約大學的畢業演講 Taylor Swift addresses at 2022 NYU Graduational Commencement - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, I'm Taylor.
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Last time I was in a stadium this size, I was dancing in heels and wearing a glittery leotard.
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This outfit is much more comfortable.
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I would like to say a huge thank you to NYU's Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
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Bill Berkley, and all the trustees and members of the board,
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NYU's President Andrew Hamilton, Provost Catherine Fleming,
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and the faculty and alumni here today who have made this day possible.
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I feel so proud to share this day with my fellow honorees, Susan Hockfield and Felix Matos Rodriguez,
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who humble me with the ways they improve our world with their work.
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As for me, I'm 90% sure the main reason I'm here is because I have a song called 22.
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And let me just say,
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I am elated to be here with you today as we celebrate and graduate New York University's Class of 2022.
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Not a single one of us here today has done it alone.
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We are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us, those who have believed in our futures,
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those who showed us empathy and kindness, or told us the truth even when it wasn't easy to hear.
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Those who told us we could do it when there was absolutely no proof of that.
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read stories to you and taught you to dream
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and offered up some moral code of right and wrong for you to try and live by.
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Someone tried their best to explain every concept in this insanely complex world to the child
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that was you as you asked a bazillion questions like how does the moon work
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and why can we eat salad but not grass
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and maybe they didn't do it perfectly no one ever can maybe they aren't with us anymore in
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that case I hope you'll remember them today
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if they are in this stadium I hope you'll find your
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own way to express your gratitude for all the steps and missteps that have led us to this common destination.
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I know that words are supposed to be my thing, but I will never be able to find the words to thank my mom and dad, my brother Austin, for the sacrifices they made every day
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so I could go from singing in coffee houses to standing up here with you all today
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because no words would ever be enough.
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To all the incredible parents, family members, mentors, teachers, allies,
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friends and loved ones here today who have supported these students in their pursuit of educational enrichment,
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Let me say to you now, welcome to New York.
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It's been waiting for you.
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I'd like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a doctor.
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not the type of doctor you would want around in case of an emergency.
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Unless your specific emergency was
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that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section.
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Or if your emergency was that you needed a person who can name over 50 breeds of cats in one minute.
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I never got to have a normal college experience per se.
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I went to public high school until 10th grade
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and then finished my education doing homeschool work on the floors of airport terminals.
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Then I went out on the road for a radio tour, which sounds incredibly glamorous, but in reality, it consisted of a rental car,
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motels, and my mom and I pretending to have loud mother-daughter fights with each other during boarding
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so no one would want the empty seat between us on Southwest.
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as a kid, I always thought I would go away to college, imagining the posters I would hang on the wall of my freshman dorm.
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I even set the ending of my music video from my song Love Story at my fantasy imaginary college,
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where I meet a male model reading a book on the grass
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and with one single glance we realized we had been in love in our past lives.
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Which is exactly what you guys all experienced at some point in the last four years, right?
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But I really can't complain about not having a normal college experience to you
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because you went to NYU during a global pandemic.
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Being essentially locked into your dorms and having to do classes over Zoom, everyone in college during normal times stresses about test scores.
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And on top of that, you also had to pass like a thousand COVID tests.
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I imagine the idea of a normal college experience was all you wanted to.
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But in this case, you and I both learned
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that you don't always get all the things in the bag
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that you selected from the menu in the delivery surface that is life.
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You get what you get.
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And as I would like to say to you wholeheartedly, you should be very proud of what you've done with it.
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Today, you leave New York University and then go out into the world searching what's next. And so will I.
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So as a rule, I try not to give anyone unsolicited advice unless they ask for it.
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I'll go into this more later.
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I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation to
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impart whatever wisdom I might have to tell you things that have helped me so far in my life.
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Please bear in mind that I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do.
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You've worked and struggled and sacrificed and studied and dreamed your way here today.
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And so, you know what you're doing.
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you'll do things differently than I did them and for different reasons.
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So I won't tell you what to do because no one likes that.
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I will, however, give you some life hacks I wish I knew
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when I was starting out my dreams of a career and navigating life,
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love, pressure, choices, shame, hope, and friendship.
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The first of which is, life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once.
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Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release.
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What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep and what things to release.
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You can't carry all things.
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All grudges, all updates on your ex,
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all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started.
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Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go.
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Oftentimes, the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there's more room for them.
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One toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys.
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You get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning.
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Secondly, learn to live alongside cringe.
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No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe,
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you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.
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Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime.
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Even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe.
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I promise you, you're probably doing or wearing something right now
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that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.
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You can't avoid it, so don't try to.
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For example, I had a phase where for the entirety of 2012,
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I dressed like a 1950s housewife. But you know what?
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I was having fun.
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Trends and phases are fun.
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Looking back and laughing is fun.
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And while we're talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn't,
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I'd like to say I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things.
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It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence.
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This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it.
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that people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.
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And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things, but I've never been an expert on chic, but I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this.
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Never be ashamed of trying.
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Effortlessness is a myth.
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The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school.
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The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.
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I started writing songs when I was 12, and since then, it's been the compass guiding my life,
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and in turn, my life guided my writing.
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Everything I do is just an extension of my writing, whether it's directing videos or a short film,
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creating the visuals for a tour, or standing on a stage performing.
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Everything is connected by my love of the craft.
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The thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down and polishing it all up in the end.
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Editing.
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Waking up in the middle of the night, throwing out the old idea because you just thought of a new or better one.
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Or a plot device that ties the whole thing together.
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There's a reason they call it a hook.
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Sometimes a string of words just ensnares me and I can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down.
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As a songwriter, I've never been able to sit still or stay in one creative place for too long.
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I've made and released 11 albums, and in the process, I've switched genre from country to pop to alternative to folk,
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and this might sound like a very songwriter-centric line of discussion,
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but in a way, I really do think we are all
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writers and most of us write in a different voice for different situations.
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You write differently in your Instagram stories than you do your senior thesis.
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You send a different type of email to your boss than you do your best friend from home.
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We are all literary chameleons and I think it's fascinating.
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It's just a continuation of the idea that we are
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so many things all the time and I know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be and when,
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who you are now and how to act in order to get where you want to go.
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I have some good news.
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It's totally up to you.
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I have some terrifying news.
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It's totally up to you.
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I said to you earlier that I don't ever offer advice unless someone asked me for it and I'll tell you why.
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As a person who started my very public career at the age of 15, it came with a price.
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And that price was years of unsolicited advice.
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Being the youngest person in every room for over a decade meant
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that I was constantly being issued warnings from older members of the music industry,
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media, interviewers, executives, and this advice often presented itself as thinly veiled warnings.
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See, I was a teenager at a time
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when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having perfect young female role models.
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It felt like every interview I did included slight barbs by
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the interviewer about me one day running off the rails and
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that meant a different thing to every person who said it to me.
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So I became a young adult while being fed the message
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that if I didn't make any mistakes all the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels.
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However if I did slip up the entire earth would fall off its axis
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and it would be entirely my fault and I would go to pop star jail forever and ever.
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It was all centered around the idea that mistakes equal failure
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and ultimately the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life.
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This has not been my experience.
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My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life.
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And being embarrassed when you mess up, it's part of the human experience.
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Getting back up, dusting yourself off, and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it, that's a gift.
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The times I was told no or wasn't included, wasn't chosen, didn't win, didn't make the cut.
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Looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important,
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if not more crucial than the moments I was told yes.
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Not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely.
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But because I felt alone, I would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else.
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Having label executives in Nashville tell me
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that only 35 year old housewives listened to country music
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and there was no place for a 13 year on their roster made me cry in the car on the way home.
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But then I'd post my songs on my MySpace. And yes, MySpace.
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And I would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music, but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective.
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Having journalists write in-depth, oftentimes critical pieces about who they perceived me to be
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made me feel like I was living in some weird simulation, but it also made me look inward to learn about who I actually am.
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Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game
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was not a great way to date in my teens and 20s, but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely.
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Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful,
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but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute-by-minute, ever-fluctuating social relevance and likability.
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Getting canceled on the internet and nearly losing my career gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine.
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I know I sound like a consummate optimist, but I'm really not.
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I lose perspective all the time.
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Sometimes everything just feels completely pointless.
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I know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism.
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And I know that I'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU.
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So this might be hard for you to hear.
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In your life, you will inevitably misspeak,
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trust the wrong person, underreact, overreact, hurt the people who didn't deserve it,
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overthink, not think at all, self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists?
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Ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others.
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Deny any wrongdoing.
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Not take the steps to make it right.
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Feel very guilty.
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Let the guilt eat at you.
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Hit rock bottom.
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Finally address the pain you caused.
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Try to do better next time.
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Rinse.
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Repeat.
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And I'm not going to lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.
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I'm trying to tell you that losing things doesn't just mean losing.
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A lot of the time when we lose things, we gain things too.
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Now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path.
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Every choice you make leads to the next choice, which leads to the next, and I know it's hard to know which path to take.
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There will be times in life where you need to stand up for yourself.
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Times when the right thing is actually to back down and apologize.
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Times when the right thing is to fight.
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Times when the right thing is to turn and run.
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Sometimes to hold on with all you have.
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Sometimes to let go with grace.
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Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform.
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Sometimes the right thing to do is to sit and listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us.
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How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments?
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You won't.
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How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices?
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I won't.
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The scary news is, you're on your own now.
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But the cool news is, you're on your own now.
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I leave you with this.
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We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams.
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And you will screw it up sometimes.
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So will I.
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And when I do, you will most likely read about it on the internet.
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Anyway, hard things will happen to us.
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We will recover.
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We will learn from it.
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We will grow more resilient because of it.
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And as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through,
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breathe deep, and breathe out.
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And I am a doctor now, so I know how breathing works.
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I hope you know how proud I am to share this day with you.
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We're doing this together, so let's just keep dancing like we're the class of 22.
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