Posted May 3, 2012 9:00 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Commencement speakers who urge you to aspire to great things don’t have your happiness in mind.
Charles Wheelan, an economist who has studied well being, says commencement speakers should instead advise you: Don’t try to be great. “Being great involves luck and other circumstances beyond your control,” Wheelan says in an article for the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). “The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn't, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.”
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1 comment:
Whether this advice is worth anything depends on what "great" means.
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