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"      There&amp;#039;s a reason this speech is going viral. Actor Charlie Day dished out a handful of refreshingly unclich\u00E9 advice during his commencement speech at his alma mater, Merrimack College. While explaining his post-grad struggles, the It&amp;#039;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cocreator threw in some witty quips and honest advice\u2014including telling his audience that their degrees will &amp;quot;basically do nothing.&amp;quot; Here are our seven favorite moments: 6:45 &amp;quot;Your degrees, the ones you toiled to get, the ones you actually took classes to earn, will basically do nothing. Let me clarify that: You cannot exchange your degree for cash, you cannot have your degree do an audition or interview for you.&amp;quot; 10:22 &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always had a half-baked philosophy that having a plan B can muddle up your plan A.&amp;quot; 11:15 &amp;quot;If I was going to run the risk of failure, I wanted it to be in the place where I would be proud to fail, doing what I wanted to do. And let me tell you something, I did fail. Over and over again.&amp;quot; 12:24 &amp;quot;I had a sense that maybe I could create an opportunity that was better than the ones that were being given to me.&amp;quot; 14:40 &amp;quot;Creating the job as opposed to waiting for it to be offered to me was the best way to go. Now the obvious lesson here: Don&amp;#039;t wait for your break, make your break. Make it happen for yourself.&amp;quot; 16:56 &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think you should do just what makes you happy, I think you should do what makes you great. Do what is uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail, let yourself fail, fail in the way\u2014and the place\u2014where you would want to fail. Fail, pick yourself up, and fail again. Because without this struggle what is your success anyway?&amp;quot; 18:45 &amp;quot;Stay hungry. Stay young at heart. Take those risks. You are going to change the world in big ways and small.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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