Bo's rules to mold myth see a finished

it that's y'all I am very happy to be

here with you today

deeply honored thank you for that kind

introduction IOB Andi it's wonderful to

see you again I'm so grateful for the

honor you and NYU have given me today

now you know you may not know but Andrew

is an honorary Canadian and British

Columbian because like me he studied at

the University of British Columbia back

in the day it makes me proud that Canada

was part of Andrews formation just as

NYU has helped form so many amazing

Canadians including two members of my

own staff I've actually told that a

hundred and eighty of the NYU class of

2018 are Canadians hello welcome my

friends

I have to say to be here now speaking

with all of you in Yankee Stadium one of

the greatest places in one of the

greatest cities on earth is more than a

little humbling my friends you are now

NYU graduates the best and the brightest

you have great potential and

possibilities and therefore you have

enormous responsibility too so today I'd

like to talk about the nature of both

those things and I'd like to offer you a

challenge one that I think is essential

for your future success as individuals

and as the leaders that you are becoming

among the many things I admire about NYU

is that about a fifth of the students

are international

and a similar proportion are the very

first in their families to go to college

this group is truly diverse in every

possible way and I think that is an

extraordinarily valuable and important

thing when I graduated in the early

1990s I went on a trip around the world

with a few good friends who actually

remained good friends to this day which

is a sort of a miracle we trekked and

travel mostly overland from Europe to

Africa to Asia and that remains one of

the great formative experiences of my

life it was an amazing adventure

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premiere for toka dude how country

ecology etcd Lili Damita Avedissian

keep after photos Rome is opinion is

experience Missy D novella uma lon it

was also an important a really important

contributor to my continued broader

education because it forced me really

for the first time as an adult to meet

engage befriend people whose views and

experiences ideas values and language

were very different from my own see when

a kid from Montreal meets a Korean

fishermen living in Mauritania Ruffins a

Russian veteran of their Afghan war or

shopkeeper in his family living in

Danang interesting conversations always

happen now maybe some of you have talked

about doing something like a great trip

like that after graduation but I'd be

willing to bet one of the fur

things you heard was a warning you can't

do that in this day and age it's not

safe but here's my question is it really

just the issue of physical safety that

makes our loved ones so anxious at the

idea of us getting out there or is it

the threat that if we look past our

frames the frames of our own lives of

our own communities structured values

and belief systems to truly engage with

people who believe fundamentally

different things we could perhaps be

transformed into someone new and

unfamiliar to those who know and love us

see there's no question that today's

world is more complex than it was in the

mid-1990s there are serious and

important problems that we're grappling

with and will continue to grapple with

but we are not going to arrive at mutual

respect which is where we solve common

problems if we cocoon ourselves in an

ideological social or intellectual

bubble

now we can see it all around us there's

a peculiar fascination with dystopia in

our culture today you see it everywhere

on film and TV but the truth is that

unbalanced we have the good fortune to

live in a time of tremendous possibility

and potential a time when it is within

our grasp to eliminate extreme poverty

to end terrible diseases like malaria

and TB and to offer a real chance of an

education to everyone on this planet but

for us to move forward to keep moving

and moving forward we have to do it

together all together

humanity has to fight our tribal mindset

we go to the same church cool you're in

my tribe you speak my language

you're in my tribe you're at NYU alumni

you're in my tribe you play pokemon go

you're a vegetarian you like the Yankees

you go to the gun range you're

pro-choice tribe tribe tribe si but of

course it's not the belonging part that

is the real problem

it's the corollary you are part of my

tribe and they are not whether it's race

gender language sexual orientation or

religious or ethnic origin or our

beliefs and values themselves diversity

doesn't have to be a weakness

can be our greatest strength now often

people talk about striving for tolerance

now don't get me wrong there are places

in this world where a little more

tolerance would go a long way but if

we're being honest right here right now

I think we can aim a little higher than

mere tolerance think about saying I

tolerate you actually means something

like okay I grudgingly admit that you

have a right to exist just don't get in

my face about it and hope don't date my

sister there's not a religion in the

world that asks you to tolerate thy

neighbor so let's try for something a

little more like acceptance respect

friendship and yes

even love

why does this matter because in our

aspiration to relevance in our love for

our families in our desire to contribute

to make this world a better place

despite our differences we are all the

same and when you meet and befriend

someone from another country or another

culture who speaks a different language

or who worships differently you quickly

realize this and here's my main point

and the challenge I'm offering you today

our celebration of difference needs to

extend to differences of values and

beliefs to diversity includes political

and cultural diversity it includes a

diversity of perspectives and approaches

to solving problems see it's far too

easy with social media shaping our

interactions to engage only with people

with whom we already agree members of

our tribe

well this world is and must be bigger

than that

so here's my request as you go forward

from this place I would like you to make

a point of reaching out to people whose

beliefs and values differ from your own

I would like you to listen to them truly

listen and try to understand them and

find that common ground you have a world

of opportunity at your fingertips but as

you go forward from here

understand that just around the corner a

whole different order of learning awaits

in which your teachers will come from

every station in life every education

level every belief system every

lifestyle and I hope you will embrace

that you have been students you will

continue to learn all your lives but now

it is also time for you to become

leaders

in every generation leaders emerge

because they one day awake to the

realization that it's not up to someone

else to fix this problem or take up that

cause it's up to them so now is the time

for you to lead leaders now I'm sure

that's a word that's been tossed around

you and at you quite a bit over the past

few hours days weeks and years leaders

of tomorrow leaders of today but what

does it mean what attributes does a 21st

century leader need to have what do

people need most from their leaders

today and tomorrow now I think you need

to be brave really brave and I know when

you think of courageous leaders you

think of those folks who stood

implacably and fearlessly anchored in

their sense of rightness willing to pit

their ideas against all comers against

the slings and arrows aimed their way

well I don't think that's brave enough I

don't think that's good enough for what

our shared future will ask of you I

actually don't think it's ever been good

enough see let me tell you a bit about

wilfred laurier a promising young lawyer

at the end of the 19th century who would

go on to become my second favorite prime

minister he was raised and educated as a

proud Catholic french-canadian an

exemplary representative of one side of

the two identities that had come

together to found

just a few decades before the two

solitudes the other half being

english-speaking Protestant and fiercely

loyal to the British crown accommodated

each other

cooperated together and generally put up

with each other to build our country but

still felt all too well

the divisions and fault lines that had

led them through almost a millennium of

tensions and wars between English and

French it was impressed upon young

Wilfred by his teachers and elders that

he must stand up unflinchingly for the

values and the identity of his heritage

those beliefs and approaches approaches

that were his birthright and would be

his legacy that they told him was

leadership but Wilfred grew to believe

otherwise he realized that it's actually

easy to stand fixed rooted in the

conviction that you are right and either

wait for others to come to you or wait

for your chance to impose your rightness

on others he saw that it's actually

harder to seek compromise to dig deep

into yourself your ideas and convictions

honestly and rigorously to see where you

can give and where you do need to stand

while opening yourself up to the other

point of view to seek out and find that

common ground and that remains Wilfred

Laurier political legacy more than a

hundred years later to let yourself be

vulnerable to another point of view

what takes true courage to open yourself

to another's convictions and risk being

convinced a little or a lot of the

validity of their perspective now that's

scary discovering that someone you

vehemently disagree with might have a

point might even be right but it

shouldn't be scary or threatening

particularly to all of you who have

worked so hard these past years to

pursue truth to learn to grow being open

to others is what has gradually led

Canadians to the understanding that

differences can and must be a source of

strength not of weakness and I say

gradually because 20th century Canadian

history is filled with counter examples

and terrible setbacks that were still

trying to remedy today most notably the

systemic marginalization and oppression

of indigenous peoples we're not perfect

of course but that sense of openness

respect for other points of view and

acceptance of each other really does

underpin our approach as we try to solve

the great problems of our time and not

because we're nice but of course we are

but because by bringing together diverse

perspectives you get a much better shot

at meeting those challenges and that's

how we come back to you and the leaders

the world needs you to be leadership has

always been about getting people to act

in common cause we're going to build a

new country we're going to war we're

going to the moon it usually required

convincing

or coercing a specific group to follow

you and the easiest way to do that has

always been through tribal contrasts

they believe in a different God they

speak a different language they don't

want the same things as we do but the

leadership we need most today and in the

years to come is leadership that brings

people together that brings diversity to

a common Clause this is the antithesis

of the polarization the aggressive

nationalism the identity politics that

have grown so common of late it's harder

of course it's always been easier to

divide than unite but mostly it requires

true courage because if you want to

bring people around to your way of

thinking you need to first show them

that you are open to theirs that you are

willing to enter into a conversation

that might change your mind show respect

for their point of view and you have a

better chance of actually having them

listen to yours and regardless of what

happens you will have had a genuine

exchange that focused on understanding

not on winning a debate or scoring

points and you will both be improved for

it now let me be very clear this is not

an endorsement of moral relativism or a

declaration that all points of view are

valid female genital mutilation is wrong

no matter how many generations have

practiced it

anthropogenic climate change is real no

matter how much some folks want to deny

it but here's the question do you want

to win an argument and feel good about

how superior you are or do you actually

want to change behaviors and beliefs see

it's been pointed out that one of the

many differences between Abraham Lincoln

and Jefferson Davis was that Davis

preferred to win a debate while Lincoln

would rather win the war and that's the

question do you want to win an argument

or do you want to change the world with

malice toward none and charity toward

all let those words of this country's

greatest president guide your ambitions

your hopes for yourselves your families

your country your planet there is no

shortage of cynicism and selfishness in

the world be their answer their antidote

I am abundantly optimistic about the

future because of you it is yours to

make and mold and shape the world

eagerly awaits indeed requires your

ideas your initiative your enterprise

your energy your passion and compassion

your idealism and your ambition but

remember that true courage is the

essential ingredient in all your efforts

congratulations class of 2018 now go

change the world let's see

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Bo 塑造神话的规则 看到一个完成

就这样 我很高兴

今天能和你在一起

非常荣幸感谢你的亲切

介绍 IOB Andi 很高兴

再次见到你 我非常感谢

你和纽约大学的荣誉 今天给了我，

现在你知道你可能不知道，但安德鲁

是加拿大和不列颠哥伦比亚的荣誉公民，

因为和我一样，他当时

在不列颠哥伦比亚

大学学习，让我感到自豪的是，加拿大

就像纽约大学一样是安德鲁斯组织的一部分

帮助形成了这么多令人惊叹的

加拿大人，包括我

自己的两名员工我实际上告诉

过纽约大学

2018 年的 180 名是加拿大人你好欢迎我的

朋友们

我不得不说现在在这里

与你们在洋基的所有人交谈 体育场

地球上最伟大的城市之一中最伟大

的地方之一，我的朋友们，你们现在是

纽约大学的毕业生最优秀和最聪明的人，

你们拥有巨大的潜力和

可能性，因此你们 也有

巨大的责任，所以今天我

想谈谈这两件事的本质

，我想给你一个

挑战，我认为这

对你作为个人

和你正在成为的领导者的未来成功至关重要

我钦佩纽约大学的许多事情

是，大约五分之一的学生

是国际学生，

而相似的比例

是他们家庭中第一个上大学的人。

这个群体在各个方面都真正多样化

，我认为这是一个

非常有价值和 重要

的是，当我在 1990 年代初毕业时，我

和几个好朋友一起环游世界，他们

直到今天仍然是好朋友，这

是一个奇迹，我们徒步

旅行，大部分时间从欧洲到

非洲再到亚洲和 这仍然

是我一生中最重要的成长经历之一

这是一次了不起的冒险

no voyage si 看到一个非常关联的 emoni

takechiyo sans pulau tioman Pascucci do

为 toka du 首映 德如何国家

生态等d Lili Damita

Avedissian 保持照片后罗马是意见是

经验 Missy D 中篇小说 uma lon 这

也是我继续更广泛教育的一个重要的非常重要的

贡献

因为它真的迫使我

作为一个成年人第一次见面

参与 和那些观点和

经历、价值观和语言

与我完全不同的人交朋友看到当

一个来自蒙特利尔的孩子遇到一个

住在毛里塔尼亚的韩国渔民 Ruffins 一个

在阿富汗战争中的俄罗斯退伍军人或

住在

岘港的家庭店主 有趣的对话

现在总是发生 也许你们中的一些人

谈论过在毕业后做一次像这样的伟大旅行

，但我

愿意打赌

你听到的一件皮草是警告你不能

在这个时代这样做，这

不安全但是 这是我的问题，真的

只是人身安全问题

让我们所爱的人

对我们离开那里的想法如此

焦虑还是 威胁说，如果我们超越我们

自己的框架，审视我们自己社区的生活框架，

构建价值观

和信仰体系，以真正与

那些相信根本

不同事物的人互动，我们可能会

变成一个

陌生的人，让那些知道和爱的人不熟悉 我们

看到，毫无疑问，当今

世界比 1990 年代中期更加复杂

，我们正在努力解决并将继续努力解决的严重而重要的问题，

但我们不会达成相互

尊重，这就是

如果我们把自己困在

意识形态的社会或知识

泡沫中，

我们就能解决

共同的问题 幸运地

生活在一个充满可能性

和潜力的时代，一个

我们能够消除极端贫困

以结束可怕的时代 像疟疾和结核病这样的疾病

，并为

这个星球上的每个人提供真正的教育机会，但

为了让我们继续前进，继续

前进，我们必须

共同努力，

人类必须与我们的部落心态作斗争，

我们要去 同一个教堂 很酷 你在

我的部落 你说我的语言

你在我的部落 你在纽约大学的校友

你在我的部落 你玩口袋妖怪

你是素食主义者 你喜欢洋基队

你去射击场 你是

支持选择部落的部落部落，但

当然，真正的问题不是归属部分，

而是推论你是我

部落的一部分，无论是种族

性别语言性取向或

宗教或种族起源还是我们的

信仰和价值观本身 多样性

不一定是弱点

可以是我们最大的优势 现在

人们经常谈论争取宽容

现在不要误会我的意思

在这个世界上有些

地方多一点宽容会大有帮助 如果

我们现在在这里很诚实

我认为我们的目标可以比

单纯的容忍高一点 想想说我

容忍你实际上意味着

好的 我勉强承认你

有权存在只是不要在

我面前 希望不要和我

姐姐约会 世界上没有一种宗教

要求你容忍你的

邻居所以让我们尝试

一些更像接受的东西尊重

友谊，是的，

甚至爱

为什么这很重要，因为在我们

对相关性的渴望中 尽管我们存在差异，但我们

对家庭的爱是我们希望

为使这个世界变得更美好做出贡献的愿望，

我们都是

一样的，当您遇到

来自另一个国家或另一种

文化、讲不同语言

或崇拜不同的人并与之成为朋友时，您很快就会

意识到 这就是

我今天要向你们提出的主要观点和挑战，

我们对差异的庆祝需要

扩大到价值观和

信仰的差异，扩大到多样性，包括 des 政治

和文化多样性 它包括解决问题的

多种观点和

方法 看到

社交媒体塑造我们的

互动以仅与

我们已经同意我们部落成员的人互动太容易了，

这个世界已经并且必须大于

所以这是我的要求，当你

从这个地方继续前进时，我希望你能

与那些

信仰和价值观与你不同的人接触

这个共同点让

你触手可及的机会世界，但当

你从这里前进时，你会

明白，就在拐角处，一个

完全不同的学习秩序正在

等待你的老师来自

生活的每一个

阶段，每一个教育水平，每一个信仰体系，每一个

生活方式，我希望你能

接受你曾经是学生，你将

继续学习你的一生，但

现在也是你的时候了 你要成为

每一代领导者 领导者的出现

是因为他们有一天会

意识到，

解决这个问题或解决这个问题不取决于其他人，

这取决于他们，所以现在是

你领导领导者的时候了 我敢肯定

，在过去的几个小时里，这个词已经在你身边和你身边被扔了

很多次

，明天的领导者，今天的领导者，但

它是什么意思

？ 大多数来自他们

今天和明天的领导人 现在我认为你

需要勇敢 真的勇敢 我知道当

你想到勇敢的领导人时，你会

想到那些

坚定不移、无所畏惧地坚守在

他们的正义感中愿意将

他们的想法与所有来者相提并论的人

对着投石器和箭瞄准他们的

方向我认为这不够勇敢

好吧，

让我告诉你一些关于

威尔弗雷德·劳里尔的事

两个身份的一方

在两个孤独的几十年前聚集在一起，

另一半是说

英语的新教徒和

对英国王室的强烈忠诚，相互包容，

共同合作，普遍

容忍对方建立 我们的国家，但

仍然非常清楚

导致他们经历了近一千年的

英法之间的紧张和战争的分歧和断层线，

他的老师和长辈给年轻的威尔弗雷德留下了深刻的印象，

他必须坚定不移地捍卫

价值观和 他的遗产的身份

那些信仰和方法

接近他与生俱来的权利，并将成为

他的遗产，他们告诉 他是

领导，但威尔弗雷德逐渐相信，

否则他意识到，实际上

很容易根植于

自己是对的信念中，要么

等待别人来找你，要么

等待你有机会将你的正确性强加给

其他人，他看到这是 实际上

更难寻求妥协

诚实而严谨

地深入

挖掘自己

的想法和信念

一百多年后，威尔弗雷德·劳里尔（Wilfred Laurier）的政治遗产仍然存在

让自己

容易受到另一种观点的影响

什么需要真正的勇气才能让自己

接受他人的信念，并冒着被

说服他们观点的一点或

大部分有效性的风险，现在这是

可怕的发现 你

强烈反对的人可能有

观点甚至可能是正确的，但它

不应该是可怕或威胁

的 早

在过去几年里努力工作以

追求真理、学会成长、

对他人开放的所有人都

逐渐明白，

差异可以而且必须是力量的源泉，

而不是软弱的源泉，我

逐渐说 因为 20 世纪的加拿大

历史充满了反例

和可怕的挫折，而这些挫折

今天仍在试图纠正，尤其是对土著人民的

系统性边缘化和压迫

，我们

当然并不完美，但这种开放感

尊重其他观点和

接受

当我们试图解决

我们这个时代的重大问题时，彼此之间确实支持我们的方法，这不是

因为我们很好，但我们当然很好，

而是因为通过汇集不同的

观点，你可以更好

地应对这些挑战，那就是

我们如何回到你和

世界需要你成为领导者的领导者

一直是关于让人们

以共同的事业行事 e 我们要建立一个

新的国家 我们要开战 我们

要登月 这通常需要

说服

或强迫一个特定的群体跟随

你，而最简单的方法

一直是通过

他们认为的部落对比 在不同的上帝中，他们

说着不同的语言，他们不

想要与我们一样的东西，但

我们今天和未来

几年最需要的领导力是将

人们聚集在一起的领导力，将多样性带入

一个共同的条款，这是对立面

两极分化 激进的

民族主义

最近变得如此普遍的身份政治

当然更难分裂总是比团结更容易，

但大多数情况下它需要

真正的勇气，因为如果你

想让人们按照你的

思维方式思考你需要 首先

向他们表明您对他们的观点持开放态度 您

愿意进行

可能会改变主意的对话

尊重他们的观点并且您有

更好的机会 f 实际上让他们

听你的，无论发生

什么，你都会进行真正的

交流，重点是理解

而不是赢得辩论或

得分，你们都会因此而得到改善

，让我很清楚这

不是认可 道德相对主义

的观点或所有观点都是

有效的女性生殖器切割的声明是错误的，

无论有多少代人

实践过

人为气候变化是真实的，

无论有些人多么想否认

它，但这里的问题是你

想赢 争论并且对

自己的优越感感到满意，或者您实际上

是否想改变行为和信念，请参阅

有人指出，

亚伯拉罕·林肯

和杰斐逊·戴维斯之间的许多区别之一是戴维斯

更喜欢赢得辩论，而林肯则

宁愿赢得 战争，这就是

问题，你想赢得一场争论，

还是你想用恶意改变世界而不是慈善，改变世界

让这个国家

最伟大的总统的话来指引你的野心

你对自己的希望 你的家庭

你的国家 你的星球 世界上

不乏玩世不恭和自私

的人 是他们的答案 他们的解药

我对未来充满乐观

因为有你 这是 你去

创造、塑造和塑造世界

热切期待你的

想法 你的主动性 你的事业

你的能量 你的热情和同情心

你的理想主义和你的野心 但

请记住，真正的勇气是

你所有努力的基本要素

祝贺 2018 届现在去

改变 让我们看看