Bridge builder. Education through skill expansion. Founder of the media agency Hayden Academy Collective Studios.
🌌 This Graduation Address is Gold
Hey Creative Futurist,
It's graduation season!
This year I got to connect with several seniors in the Class of 2023 (one even stopped me in the hall to get his yearbook signed!)
I share a special connection with this year's graduating class.
Why?
Because it marks 20 years since I graduated from high school. (Even though many students thought I was in my 20s! Ha!)
So for this special issue of The Creative Futurist I address the Class of 2023, in a speech I was never asked to deliver, but did anyway.
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In "An Address to the Class of 2023...Play Smart," I dive into the blend of work and play, leveraging technology, and continuous improvement.
But it's not just a typical 'work hard', blah blah speech!
I also throw in events from my time as a skin n' bones high school kid.
The kind of events only those of us of a certain age can appreciate (anybody remember Y2K?).
Anyway, I encourage you to hit the button below and read it.
And if you have a son or daughter (or know parents of someone graduating) pass this along.
It's advice I would have like to have heard 20 years ago.
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| Read (or listen) to the speech |
Best,
Keith
Keith Hayden
Bridge builder. Education through skill expansion. Founder of the media agency Hayden Academy Collective Studios.
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