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Jim Carrey at MIU: Commencement Address at the 2014 Graduation (EN, FR, ES, RU, GR,...)
The safe choice isn't guaranteed to be safe. So what would you do out of love instead of fear?
Who it's for
Many people stay in unsatisfying paths because the safe option feels less frightening.
Anxious→Empowered
Feelings it meets
What it is
Jim Carrey's 2014 commencement address to graduates of Maharishi University of Management (now Maharishi International University). Carrey frames life choices as a decision between love and fear, and tells how his father, a talented natural comedian, took a safe job as an accountant and was let go from it when Carrey was 12.
Where to find it
YouTube, Maharishi International University channel (free); the title indicates subtitles in several languages.
Before you start
Age: Ages 12+
But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Chapter XVI (tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude)
