Returning to the Princeton campus where he had taught economics for seventeen years, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke offered graduates his 'Ten Suggestions' — a deliberately humble alternative to the Ten Commandments. Suggestion number eight was the most concise and memorable: a sports metaphor that distilled a lifetime of experience in economics, policymaking, and navigating the 2008 financial crisis into two sentences. For a man who had steered the nation's central bank through its greatest test since the Great Depression, the advice carried particular authority.