The hardest thing in the world is to let yourself know what you know. Because life is noisy. Everything we're told, everything about the way we're raised and educated and bombarded by our culture makes noise. And that noise makes it very hard to hear the ticking of our own hearts.
Lawrence Kasdan
University of Michigan Commencement 1990, 1990
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Kasdan used an old University of Michigan legend to set up this insight — the story of a student named Danny who attended only the first class and the final exam, scoring 97 out of 100. When asked why he didn't get a perfect score, Danny replied: 'That first day you confused me a little.' Kasdan compared this to life itself, where we're constantly being 'taught' by television, advertising, parents, bosses, and political leaders, making it increasingly hard to hear our own thoughts. This was deeply personal for Kasdan. He confessed that behind his youthful confidence and certainty about the world, there had always been a second self — 'confused and afraid and clearly unprepared to go out into the world.' He told the graduates that this internal division never goes away: 'The older you get the less you know and want to know.' The image of hearing 'the ticking of our own hearts' beneath the cultural noise became the speech's central metaphor — a quiet, persistent signal of authentic selfhood that requires courage and discipline to hear.
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