John Stewart: Commencement Adress

John Stewart is truly a gifted man having accomplished many great things, including The Daily Show with John Stewart, which is a show I have enjoyed on multiple occasions. He has a natural talent for bringing out the humor in everything. This is shown quite a bit in the commencement address, where he even starts his speech with "Thank you, Mr. President, I had forgotten how crushingly dull these ceremonies are." Haha funny right? This guy will throw humor in anywhere and continues to light up the audience with a humorous tone until a certain point. About half way through the address, the tone shifts. "I don't really know how to put this, so I'll be blunt. We broke it. Please don't be mad." This is the quote used to switch the tone to a more serious manner. He emphasizes how somewhere between the baby boomers and the new internet savvy world, things have died and the world is corrupt. He places the task of fixing this broken world in each graduates hand, and its true, the new generation is destined to take this world out of this state of behavior. I find it funny when he brings up the war on terror and how the generation before these graduates 'declared war on terror' and that's not even a noun, yet it is still a saying! John Stewart is truly a creative comedian. Along with this humor comes knowledge and Stewart has proven to be quite wise, "So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience". He goes on to \say that life has no core curriculum. Every student at William and Mary knew what they had to do to graduate college and how many credits they needed. Stewart points out that the paths are infinite and the results are uncertain. For those who are used to achievement, life is full of experiences so you cant get tied up in all the small things. Make results turn into your own self definition of success, set your own goals. Love what you do.. or don't if that's the path you define as success, but whatever it is, get good at it. His tips for success are spot on even though the last few lines of this address may have confused me a little bit; I really liked it.