跟讀練習: Ray Dalio: Long Island University Commencement Speech - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ray Dalio.
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The President: Thank you, President Klein.
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Thank you, Dean Bates.
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Uh...
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Dean Pallaro.
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Congratulations to the class of 2026.
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Congratulations also to all the parents, the grandparents, the brothers, the sisters, and all of the family and friends who have been with the graduates.
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through their journeys.
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There is nothing more valuable than meaningful relationships.
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Please give each other an enthusiastic round of applause.
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I'm thrilled to be your commencement speaker because It's an opportunity for me to tell you, who I view as myself,
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55 years ago, what I've learned in the 55 years since I've graduated from LIU that, you know, hopefully will be of some help to you.
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While I remember being where you are when I was 21 years old, graduating in 1971 from what was then called CW Post College,
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I don't remember who the commencement speaker was or what he said, and I suspect that you won't remember that later in your lives,
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but all I remember was nursing a hangover from celebrating the hard night before
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and being elated at graduating and reflecting on how hugely LIU had an impact on my life in improving my life.
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You see, I got into LIU on probation because I was a lousy high school student with a rebellious nature.
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I remember hating high school because it seemed to me
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that most of my education consisted of teachers forcing me to memorize what they wanted me to remember, which included a lot of useless stuff,
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and it didn't help that I had a very bad rote memory.
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At the same time, I love playing markets.
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which is where my attentions went.
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I got hooked on playing markets when I was 12, while working as a caddy at the Lynx Golf Club, which was not far from here.
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The stock market was hot.
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and the people I caddied for would walk around with me, and we would talk about stocks.
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So I took the money that I earned and I put it in the stock market.
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The first stock I bought was the only stock I heard of that was selling for less than $5 a share.
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I thought I could buy more shares so that if they went up, I'd make more money, which was a dumb strategy.
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The company that I bought was about to go bankrupt.
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But I got lucky.
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Another company acquired it, it tripled in value, I bought, I thought this game is easy,
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and I became hooked on playing this investment game at 12. So on...
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At the time when I came here, I hated school.
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and I loved playing markets until I got into post.
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I loved being here because I could take classes that interested me and engage me in quality thinking.
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And I did well, and so I went on to Harvard Business School, which was another eye -opening learning experience.
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When I was 19 and a sophomore here, I learned something that I found even more powerful than my formal education.
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The Beatles went to India to learn to meditate, and they raved about it, so I learned to meditate which has been invaluable to me.
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Meditation gives you an equanimity, aligns your self -subconscious with your conscious mind, and it is also restful and healthy.
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It also gives you a sense of spirituality, what I mean by a sense of spirituality as connection to the whole.
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You have a sense of connection of where you are within the context of the whole.
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So as a graduation gift to those of you who want it, I'm going to give you lessons in transcendental meditation.
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It is the most valuable gift that I can give anyone.
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Over my 55 years since graduating,
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I've learned a lot about how life works and how to deal with it in order to be successful,
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including what being successful really is.
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I learned that life is a journey of discovery.
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in which the goal is to understand your own nature and find the right path to suit you.
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That There is nothing more important than having good principles to guide you.
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By principles, I mean ways of handling certain situations.
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Over my lifetime, I've accumulated hundreds of principles, which is far too many to cover in this 15 minutes that I have with you.
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So I'm giving you also my book, Principles, Life and Work, which I hope will help you find the right principles for you.
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and to get what you want out of life.
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You can find it below your seat along with the card to sign up for the meditation.
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I think I'm going to put this down and not struggle with it.
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So it seems to me that you are about to travel along a similar life path a similar arc in life,
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to the one I've traveled on and most people travel on, experiencing the same phases, and having many of the same encounters I had,
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so I want to tell you what to expect and give you some tips.
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Looking back on my and others' lives, I came to see that life unfolds in three big phases.
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that are very different from each other.
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In the first phase, You are learning and you're dependent on others.
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In the second phase, you are working, and others are dependent on you.
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And in the third phase, which is the phase where I am, you are free from obligations and able to pass along what you've learned.
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The second phase, which you are about to enter, is more opposite than similar to the first.
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Rather than being in an education program and having instructors, you will guide yourself to achieve your goals,
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and you will encounter thrilling opportunities and painful setbacks, which if you reflect on well,
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will teach you what you want, what you're like, and how to be successful.
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You will learn that thinking for yourself, making painful mistakes and learning from them,
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And knowing how to deal with what you don't know is what is most valuable.
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In the early part of this second phase, which will be about your next 10 years,
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the most important thing for you is to experiment and reflect well so that you discover your nature and what is
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the path that is best for you.
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When entering this phase two, you are almost certainly making the mistake of thinking you know more than you actually know,
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especially if you got good grades in school.
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You don't yet have a clue about what life is really like, and you don't yet know what being successful really means for you,
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let alone what to go after and how to get it.
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You couldn't possibly know these things because you haven't yet experienced or thought about what you will encounter.
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In the first phase, your teachers and parents typically led you to believe that success is a matter of learning, what you were taught and not making mistakes.
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and you were taught to take pride in what you know.
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That probably made you a bit arrogant, like I was a bit arrogant when I graduated from here.
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Thank you but it is living life and encountering your realities that will teach you The question is,
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will you learn well?
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My nature and encounters with realities led me to become a professional investor, which led me to start an investment firm out of my two -bedroom apartment.
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While I ran it for 50 years, built it into the largest hedge fund in the world, and then passed it along to the next generation,
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which many people consider a great success story, I know that it was learning from my painful mistakes that made me successful.
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For example, When I was 34 years old and had run Bridgewater for eight years, I calculated that American banks
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had lent much more money to emerging countries than those countries were going to be able to pay back,
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and that that would lead to a great debt crisis almost the largest since the Great Depression.
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And it was a very controversial view.
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But in August 1982, Mexico defaulted on its debt.
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and a number of other countries followed And we did have the greatest debt crisis since the Great Depression.
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Because I had anticipated that, I was asked to testify to Congress and appear on Wall Street Week which was the show at the time.
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I thought the stock market would fall a lot, But, I couldn't have been more wrong.
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The stock market and the economy went up rather than down.
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And I lost so much money for myself and my clients that I
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had to let almost everybody go and I was so broke
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that I had to borrow $4 ,000 from my dad to help pay for my family bills.
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It was one of the most painful experiences of my life, But it turned out to be one of the most valuable experiences of my life,
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because it gave me the humility I needed to balance with my audacity.
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Rather than thinking I'm right, I thought about how do I know I'm right, and how do I find that out?
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That led me to find the smartest people who would disagree with me to understand their perspectives and have them, my own perspectives, stress test.
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I would also, led me to understand diversification, how I could reduce my risk without reducing my returns.
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In other words, I learned from that.
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From that point on, my company,
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Bridgewater, did very well and I learned and it did well because What I learned,
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I never would have learned without that painful mistake.
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My life journey also led me to meet and marry a wonderful woman, who I've been married to for 48 years.
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It led me to have four children, which led me to have eight grandchildren, who are the joys of my life.
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Such is life.
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I believe that the most important decision in your life will be who you choose as your life partner.
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So that may be ahead, and that's an important decision.
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For me and for everyone, and will be true for you,
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There are lots of ups and downs along the way some unimaginably great and some unimaginably terrible.
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For example, I lost my son, which was worse than losing everything, including my life.
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What helped me through these challenges were two things: My meditation and my calmly reflecting on how reality works
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to get and write down the best principles for dealing with my realities.
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This habit changed my whole perspective on life.
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I began to see almost everything as another one of those.
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which happened to many people before in their own ways, and knowing that there's a better way to deal for each one one of those.
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One of my favorite principles that I learned through these sorts of experiences is pain plus reflection equals progress.
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I got in the habit of viewing pain as a signal that I have a problem.
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which I view as a puzzle TO SALVE that will give me a gem in the form of a great principle.
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I learned to value my painful experiences because they became my best learning experiences and led me to make my best advances.
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I found that this approach to learning from encounters with reality
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to be a much better way of succeeding in life than remembering what others were trying to teach me.
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Those experiences and making the most of them, especially the painful experiences, are your opportunities.
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Remember that you were born with a certain nature.
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and you are on your journey to understand it and find what suits you.
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Knowing your nature is always critically important to helping you understand what success is for you
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People have different views goals in life.
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So I can't tell you literally what is best for you.
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But I can tell you that success is not having a lot more money or status than you need, though most people think that that's what it is.
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And in fact, it can become an unhealthy obsession for a lot of people, so avoid that.
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Logically, having a lot more money than you need couldn't possibly be a source of great happiness compared with the alternatives.
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For example, It isn't more important than having the time and freedom to do what you most want to do.
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So what do I believe success is for most people?
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I believe that it is a matter of having meaningful work and meaningful relationships.
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I'll say that again, meaningful work and meaningful relationships.
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In other words, work and relationships that you are thrilled by.
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If you can make your work and your passion one and the same, and you could do it with people who you care about and care about you,
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you will have a happy, successful life.
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As you travel along on life's journey, You have a choice.
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of your approach to life.
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When life doesn't give you what you want, you can be angry or sad for yourself,
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or you can learn about how reality works and develop principles and that will work well to get you what you want.
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I urge you to own your life and take responsibility to make it great.
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Think about how reality works.
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Be radically open -minded to hear how you can be better and plan the moves to make
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in order to improve your life and make yourself a great life.
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And if you want to be really successful, recognize that you have to work damned hard at doing these things well.
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Excellence is worth it.
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That's just how life works.
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So the message that I want to leave you with today is that the most valuable thing
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you can have in the next phase of your life is not your diploma or even what you've learned thus far.
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It is your approach to life.
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If you take advantage of your experiences, good or painful, as opportunities to learn,
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you will find great principles that will help you deal with your realities well.
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In the process, you will discover your nature, and find excellent work and excellent relationships that will suit you.
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which will give you the best possible life.
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So, class of '26, congratulations.
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Now get out there and encounter your realities and your excellent sense of adventure.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Dr. Dalio.

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