On May 26, 2026 I blogged about how On May 2nd actor Hugh Jackman gave the commencement speech at Ball State University. When I was looking up the YouTube video for his speech to put in that post, I found a five-minute video from the Obama Foundation on May 21, 2026 titled How to write the perfect commencement speech. It has seven top tips from his presidential speechwriters:
Match the energy of the day!
Know your audience
Say something only you can say
Pick one big idea
Honor your audience’s accomplishment
Tell the truth
And (no surprise!) End With Hope
But I believe a perfect speech is an asymptote – a limit that can be approached but not quite reached. On February 20, 2011 I blogged about Effort and an asymptote.
The cartoon was assembled from a podium and star at OpenClipArt, and a speaker modified from Wikimedia Commons.
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