Talk 1: Harvard School Commencement Speech

A prescription for misery

1. ingest chemicals to alter mood or perception> addiction can happen ... through a subtle process where the bonds of degradation are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken
2. envy
   • Read biography of Samuel Johnson
3. resentment
4. be unreliable
5. avoid learning vicariously through others, especially via books
6. do not persevere when adversity strikes
7. rely on inexact thinking

This is an example of solving a problem by inversion. Always invert.