{"product_id":"the-9-things-every-new-graduate-should-know-book","title":"The 9 Things Every New Graduate Should Know - book","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Brianna Wiest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Brianna Wiest — internationally bestselling author of The Mountain Is You, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Pivot Year, and more. Her books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide, appear regularly on international bestseller lists, and are translated into more than 40 languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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: 1. 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\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\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\u003e \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\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraduates of high school, college, or any program — the primary audience, directly addressed. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone in transition: career change, relationship change, starting over, starting fresh. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of Wiest's longer works (The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, 101 Essays) who want her most direct, personal, and concentrated voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGift buyers looking for something more substantive than a card, more personal than a generic inspirational book, and specifically calibrated to the moment of a graduation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Thought Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45373597909026,"sku":"9781965820179","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0864\/8975\/9778\/files\/05bb3b9e9e5ded19d52d2bbb237202b55720d2298563388f42752357b8abf78b.jpg?v=1778699190","url":"https:\/\/witandwhimsycuratedgoods.com\/products\/the-9-things-every-new-graduate-should-know-book","provider":"Wit \u0026 Whimsy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}