Jim Steen, the legendary men's swimming coach at Kenyon College who led his team to an NCAA-record 31 consecutive national championships, delivered the commencement address at Kenyon in 2011. He framed the entire speech as a 'coaching session,' replacing his academic cap with a baseball cap before beginning — the one convention of commencement he fully embraced. Steen's reframing of attitude was characteristic of a coach who had spent decades observing how tiny misalignments compound over time. He told the story of a sprinter with a booming voice who won NCAA titles and whose constant refrain — 'Hey, man, it's all about attitude!' — was saved from cliché by its truth. The sprinter wasn't the hardest worker or most talented, but no one ever doubted his direction. Steen's insight was that the most dangerous attitude isn't overtly negative — it's slightly off course. Just a degree or two of deviation, sustained over years, can leave you somewhere you never intended to go.