The challenge: GCs are busy, gasping for time for reflection on the meaning of being a lawyer. The solution: pausing to reflect on a little known but powerful commencement speech. So, here, courtesy of Vince Foster, is some oxygen.
Insight No. 1: Don’t Speed Dial Your Way through Life. We are so often in a rush to prove ourselves, establish a practice and a family, to get to the finish line without realizing there is no finish line. Foster starts off his address by noting that he and his friends did not attend their law school graduation. They were in a hurry to start towards the finish line. Foster writes: “(We) were wrong. We would have benefited from one last celebration with our professors and friends and families, and we would have profited by pausing one more time to think about where we had come from and where we were going and what roads we should travel.”
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