For his closing point, Tomlin shifted from encouragement to mandate. He warned that the reality of adulthood — workplaces and workforces — would inhibit their ability to dream. But in his career running across extraordinary people doing extraordinary things in every field, he noticed one common thread: they all still held onto the wild, limitless, unimaginable dreams of their youth. The only difference between dreaming before and after graduation, he said, was the daily commitment to take action to make those dreams reality.