What everyone should hear

On May 21, 2005, author David Foster Wallace gave a commencement speech at Kenyon College that was later published as an essay in 2009, titled This Is Water. The speech covers subjects including “the difficulty of empathy,” “the importance of being well adjusted,” and “the essential lonesomeness of adult life.” But basically, it is about HOW TO THINK and HOW NOT TO THINK. Here is the entire speech recorded the day DFW gave it in 2005. Please listen to it.

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