I was reading the other day about Frank Warren's address to St. Marys college this weekend at their commencement. For those of you who haven't heard of him he's the creator of Postsecret. And if you've never heard of him chances are you've never heard of Postsecret so we'll start there.
Postsecret is a long term art project wherein people write out or design whatever they want on postcards and send it in to him anonymously. The project is up to almost a thousand pieces of mail a week, spanning a tour 5 books with a 6th one in the works, and numerous speaking engagements(side note, this was one of the ppl I forgot to mention on friday that I'd like to hear speak)Its interesting to think about, what some people reveal with the cover of anonymity, both good and bad.
But I digress.
He vistited the campus the month before and asked each student in the graduating class to write something on a post card, but not his usual secret he asks for, but instead had them write down something that they and they felt the other graduates needed to hear that day. The results were quite surprising, I’ll share with you some of the most interesting ones here.
Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.
It’s better to be pissed-off than pissed-on.
My friend believes they will change the world, and I believe them.
It’s okay to fail – learn from it and you will succeed.
and one that really rang to me
I know some of us are going to walk off this stage today with no idea about what comes next – embrace it, find something that makes you happy, and follow it wherever it leads.
I know I need to learn to follow that one personally, and I think we all can.
If you’ve never seen it go check out Frank’s project at http://www.postsecret.com
and get a book or two of his, he deserves the support he’s doing a great thing.
So if you were in that class what would you have put on your postcard?
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