{"product_id":"the-9-things-every-new-graduate-should-know-book","title":"The 9 Things Every New Graduate Should Know Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 2024, Brianna Wiest returned to Elizabethtown College to deliver the commencement address to its graduating class. \"The 9 Things Every Graduate Should Know\" is that speech, transcribed and designed as a book: nine lessons she wishes she had known at the moment of her own beginning, written to an audience of one — the version of herself standing on exactly that threshold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few of these lesson: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Don't reject yourself first. The world will have plenty of chances to reject you. Don't give it a head start by never entering the arena. Victories, Wiest argues, become inevitabilities — but only for those who keep going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Do not stop believing you can create a life you love, even after chapters you didn't like. The past holds no bearing against your presence. Every day you have the chance to change your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The losses and lows of your life are your most significant opportunities for self-investment. What looks like isolation is actually, temporarily, freedom — a release from unconscious limitation. Never waste a crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. You must live in a way that other people won't, if you are to live in a way that other people can't. You become what you repeatedly do. What is celebrated in public was perfected in private.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a short, beautifully designed book — transcribed speech, typographically presented, the kind of object that reads in a single sitting and stays with you for years. It makes an ideal gift for anyone graduating, transitioning, or standing at any threshold and asking what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thought Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45098303291445,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1944\/0501\/files\/abbfb1e66b447c397c3596b6299b997bfd04ef79c90a36c9a018423ae2b54ca4.webp?v=1775061600","url":"https:\/\/shopbloved.com\/products\/the-9-things-every-new-graduate-should-know-book","provider":"B.loved","version":"1.0","type":"link"}