The Doonesbury creator told the graduates about his first college drawing class, where his professor ripped his sketch from the board and tore it to shreds — not because he couldn't draw, but because he wasn't seeing. What he was producing, the professor said, was 'visual Muzak,' filled with decisions he'd made long before entering the studio. Trudeau extended this lesson to life: when choices are lazy or facile, when you squander the gifts at hand by refusing to look with fresh eyes, major opportunities are lost forever.