Earlier I mentioned in a blog post that David C Cook Publishers asked me to submit an essay for a compilation book project called What We Want Grads to Know. The task was to answer the question: what is the one piece of advice you would want to pass on to every graduate from high school and/or college?
My essay was short and succinct:
“In high school an old man told me something I have never forgotten. He said, ‘Show me your friends and I will show you your future.’ I carry this thought around with me, even to this day. So I say to you: choose your friends wisely , for they will shape your thoughts, habits and values – and the way you view the world – more than you could ever realize at this very moment.”
What about you?
What is the one piece of advice you would want to pass along to graduates?
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you were in approaching graduation?
Who said: ‘Show me your friends and I will show you your future’? — J.R. Briggs said...
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