I wish someone had told me at my own commencement that the one and only requirement for graduation was that I had to emerge out of the closed, cordoned-off space of my own head. I had to learn to listen.
speech graduation empathy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
University of Southern California Commencement 2018, 2018
We are the only species that can learn to think like another of our own species; the only one that records and remembers its history; the only one that tries to decipher the laws of the universe.
speech graduation empathy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
University of Southern California Commencement 2018, 2018
When a grown man says he wants a cookie, he wants a cookie. The art of doctoring is negotiating with hope.
speech graduation empathy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
University of Southern California Commencement 2018, 2018