USF Commencement Speech by Greg Lukianoff

[@UNDERDOG18UNDERDOG18]

Met Greg in Chicago a few years ago. He’s fantastic! Proud FIRE supporter here.

[@davehancock9722]

A member and supporter of fire and their summer interns. Read all of Greg's books. Just superb! All the best!

[@ihavegymnastics]

FIRE is one of the very few organizations that I passionately support.

[@adamfstewart81]

Wow. So there’s one university that hasn’t completely lost its moral compass. Good on them!

[@annettelaing6347]

That's fantastic. Thank you.

[@stripey7303]

"What many people refer to as common sense is nothing more than a collection of prejudices accumulated before the age of eighteen." -- Albert Einstein I memorized this when I was nine.

[@highway9974]

Love FIRE got my card in the mail. I'm too old to go to law school and disabled. But I did donate what I could. I would love to hold a sign here in CA like Jeff Gray from honor your oath. I just wonder if Fire would fight for me.

[@RodMartinJr]

If everyone got this one lesson on *_certainty,_* the world would be immensely better. To quote from one of my own books, *_"A funny thing happens when a person reaches certainty: They stop looking."_* And since none of us are omniscient, we miss out on a great many discoveries. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯 Reference: *_Dumb Genius: How intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook)

[@MikeCasey-rz2bc]

Perfect. I will show it to my daughter who's about to go to the University of the Hague to study European law and International Relations.

[@jeffchiles7318]

When I saw the title in the e-mail directing me to this video, I thought you were going to talk about Harrison Butker.

[@alisonholmes4226]

In medicine, certainty kills. We call it "diagnostic anchoring"--if you think you have the diagnosis and other symptoms that do not fit with it arise, there can be a temptation to minimize those new findings instead of rethinking through the initial reasoning to come to a more appropriate conclusion and help your patient heal.

[@randygault4564]

If you start with a system that has any unprotected speech, then I am justified in unprotecting just one more word, just one more sentence, just one more book, just one more person.