THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we've ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.

We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested.

Read the full speech here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

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Estan estos dos pequeños peces nadando juntos

y se encuentran a un viejo pez nadando en direccion contraria

quien,,,, y dice, buenos dias muchachos, como esta el agua?

y los dos pequeños peces nadan por un rato

y luego eventualmente uno mira hacia el otro

y dice "Que diablos es agua?"

El punto de la historia de los peces es simplemente que

las realidades mas obvias e importantes son usualmente

las mas dificiles de ver y conversar.