In her closing, Huffington urged the graduates not to just break through glass ceilings in a broken system but to change the system at its root. She shared her mother's wisdom: 'Darling, change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.' She told them to find their place of wisdom and peace — quoting Archimedes, 'Give me a place to stand and I will move the world' — and from that place, remake the world according to their own definition of success.