Graduation Speeches. Sigh.

About this episode

Max Vanderpool discusses the inadequacy of graduation speeches and offers insights on finding one's calling through God's guidance.

Graduation speeches are full of platitudes and cliches: Follow your passion. If you can dream it, you can do it. Be true to yourself. And - the future belongs to you! But these platitudes are not helpful - nor do the represent the kind of life that MOST AMERICANS experience (over 150 million of them) as they work - week in and week out. So if graduation speeches aren't the best place to turn for job or career advice, where should you look? In this message, Max Vanderpool articulates how God calls and gifts EVERYONE - and how you can unearth your calling, even if it isn't something you're paid to do.

People in this episode

Host: Max Vanderpool

Topics covered

• graduation
• career advice
• calling
• God's gifts

Keywords

• platitudes
• cliches
• job advice
• life experience

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