Suskind organized his speech around the three best teachers in his life. His father taught him that values held tightly provide almost everything you need. His son — the subject of his memoir 'Life, Animated,' about raising a child diagnosed with autism at age 3 who found connection through Disney movies — taught him that heroism isn't something you're born with but something you actively choose to practice. And cab drivers around the world, whose life stories he collected over decades as a journalist, taught him to live the fullest life you can imagine. He closed by telling graduates to always look back at their families standing there, saying 'I love you and I am proud of you.'