McEnroe reflects on how stepping outside tennis transformed him. On campus, he began to see there was life beyond sports and academics. Later, passions like art and music enriched his life in ways he never imagined — from getting guitar lessons from Eddie Van Halen to narrating an Indian-American teenage girl's inner thoughts on Netflix's Never Have I Ever. He tells graduates that absolutely amazing things are going to happen to them that they can't possibly fathom right now, because they're hyper-focused on their careers. Work-life balance may seem impossible, but it's worth pursuing.