Kindness and Fearlessness
George Saunders, a best-selling author and New Yorker contributor, delivered one of the most popular commencement speeches in history at Syracuse University in May of 2013. The speech was only 11 minutes with 1,699 works. It focused on the importance of kindness and fearlessness and the risk of stressing about success. It was shared more than 1 million times online in the first few days of posting.
Teresa Nizza is a spiritual director, lay theologian, retreat facilitator, lecturer, volunteer chaplain and co-founder of mainespiritus and Tools for Intentional Living (TILT)©. She is a graduate of the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, CA and she earned a certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Mercy Center for Hope and Healing in Colorado. She earned a DMin in Transformational Leadership at BU in the School of Theology.
