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Dr mark Zuckerberg
I love thank you all for coming out in the rain pouring rain where to make these words for you President faust board of o verse ears
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Friends of a night
Proud parents
Numbers of d eg board and graduates of the greatest university in the world I am honored To Be here you today because the face it
Your cup is something I never could if I get through 的
Speech today it will be the first time I actually finished something here however class to twenty seventeen congratulations now an unlikely speaker today
Not just because I dropped out but because were technically in the same generation
We walk d yd less than a decade apart
We studied the same ideas and slept through the same act ten lectures
We may have taken different roads To Get here especially to k Mol to share what ive learned about our generation and world were all buildings together
But first these last couple days brought back a lot of good memories
Many of you remember exactly where you were and what you are doing when you got that email telling you got into Harvard
I was playing video games of a Liz Asian and I ran to video me opening email
That could have been a really really sad video
Where get into Harvard is Li zing my parents are most to me for my mom
You know talking about
Le I thought To Be there still still when you get out there
How many of you remember your first let your here at Harvard
I was running late for class
So I thought a t shirt and other Rose until afterwards I put it on inside out and backwards my chat with taking out I cant figure out why no none class to talk to me
I I face book and that class to twenty seventeen is why should be nice to people
But my best memory from Harvard is meeting priscilla
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I m just launched this prank website face masks
An d ed board wanted to see me
Everyone thought I was gonna get kicked out
My parents drove up here to help me pack my stuff
My friends threw me a going away party who does that
I thought it would have a personal lives at that party with her friends and we met in line for the bathroom in de phoTo Bell tower
And one must be one of the all time most romantic lines I turned her instead
I think it down three days it quickly actually any of you graduating
I m getting kicked out
I do that myself
Personal and I started a ting and you know that movie made it seem like face masks was so important to starting Facebook
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But without face mash up I never would have met priscilla
And per SP is the most important person in my life
So you could still stay with them ost important thing I built in my time here
We have all started life long friend ships here and some of us even families
Thats why I m so grateful to Dis placed
Thanks Harvard
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Today I wanna talk about purpose
From up here To Give you d stand or come ent about finding your purpose or Mo ni es
We try to do and instinct iv Li
Instead I m here to tell you that finding your purpose isnt enough
The challenge for our generation is to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose
One of my favorite stories
Is when jfk went To Go visit a NASA space center ne saw Janet are holding a broom and he asked what he was doing in de gen er replied Mr President I m helping put a man on the moon
Purpose is that feeling that you are a part of something bigger than yourself
That you are needed and you have something better ahead to work for
Purpose is what creates true happiness
And you are graduating at a time when does is especially important
When our parents graduated that sense of purpose reliability came from your job your church your community
But today technology and automation are eliminated in many jobs
Membership in a lot of communities has been dec lining and a lot of people are feeling disconnected and depressed and are trying to fill a void in their lives
S I traveled around I just talked with children in juvenile de tent and o p ox he told me that maybe their lives would it turned out differently if they just had something to do and after school program or somewhere To Go
I bet factory workers you know their old jobs aren t coming back and just try to find their path ahead
D to keep moving forward we have a generation ul challenge to not only create new jobs but create it renewed sense of purpose
I remember that night I launched Facebook from
That little dorm in Turkey in house
I went to those with my friend k at
And I remember telling him clearly that I was excited to help connect the Harvard community but one day someone would connect the whole world
The thing is it never occurred to me that someone might be asked you just college kids you know anything about that
The road is great big technology companies involved es resources and I just I m going to them would do
But the idea is so clear that all people want to connect
And I know that a lot of you are gonna have your own stories just like this
A change in the world that seems so clear that you are sure someone else is going to do it
But do not you will
But its not enough to have that purpose yourself
You ought to have to create a sense of purpose for other
And I found out the hard way
You see my hope was never To Build a company I wanted to have an impact
And it is always people started joining us I just assumed that thats what day wanted to do to so I never took the time to explain what it was that I hope to rebuild
A couple years in some big companies wanted To Buy it
I dont wanna sell
I want to see if we could connect more people
And we were building the first version of news feed at that time and I thought if we could just launch this you can change how we all learn about the world
Nearly everyone else wanted to sell
A sense of higher purpose their startup dream come true and it tore our company apart
After one particularly tense argument one of my close advisors told me if I dont agree to sell the company right now I would regret that decision for the rest of my life
Relationships were still fried in a year so every single person on our management team was gone
That was my hardest time leading Facebook
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I believe in what we were doing but I felt alone
And worse
It was my fault
I wonder if I was just wrong and pasta a twenty two year old kid who had no idea how things actually worked
Now years later I understand that is how things work when there is no sense of higher purpose so it is up to all of us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together
In today I wanna talk about three ways that we can create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose
By taking on big meaningful projects together
By re def I Ning a quality so everyone has the freedom to pursue their purpose and by building community all across the world
The first lets take on big meaningful projects
Our generation is gonna have to deal with tens of millions of jobs or replaced by automation like self driving cars and trucks that we have the potential to do so much more than that
Every generation has its day finding work more than three hundred thousand people work to put that man on the moon including that Janet er
Millions of volunteers in eyes children around the world against polio and millions of more people built to move or dam and other great projects
And now its all generations turn to do great thing
Now I know maybe you are thinking I know how To Build it down
I know how To Get a million people involved in anything
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Let me tell you a secret
No one does when day begin
Ideas dont come out fully formed
They only become clear as you work on them
You just have To Get started
If I had to know everything about connecting people before I got started I never would have built Facebook
Movies and pop culture just get this all wrong
D idea of a single eureka moment isa dangerous lie
It makes us feel an advocate because we feel like we have an had ours yet
And it prevent people with seeds of good ideas from ever getting started in the first place
Okay and you know what else movies get wrong about innovation
Known right smack on glass okay I think OK
Its really good To Be idea lis tic
But be prepared To Be mis understand
Anyone working on a big vision is gonna get called crazy even if you end up right
Anyone will always get critic ise for moving too fast because there is always someone who wants to slow you down
In our society we often dont take on big think so afraid of making mistakes
That we ignore all things wrong today if we do nothing
The reality is
Anything we do today
It is gonna have some issues in the future
But that cant stop us from getting started
So what are we waiting for
It is time for our generation to finding great work
How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and solar panel
L ec Turing all diseases and getting people involved by asking volunteers to share their health day to track their health data and share their genome you know today
Our society spent more than fifty times as much treating people resist is we invested finding cures so people get sick in the first place
It makes no sense
We can fix does
How about modern I zing democracy so everyone can vote online
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And how about personal ise in education to everyone can learn
D the achievements are all with in our reach
Lets do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society or roll
Lets do big sings not just to create progress but to create purpose
The taking on big meaningful projects together is the first thing we can do to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose
The second is re define ing or idea of equality so everyone has the freedom to pursue their purpose
Now many of our parents s stable jobs throughout their careers but in our generation were all a little entrepreneur to a weather were starting our own project or finding our role in other
And you know thats great because our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress
And cultural culture drives when it is easy to try lots of new ideas
Facebook was and a first thing I built
I also built chat systems and games de d tools and music players and alone
J k row Ling got rejected twelve times before she finally wrote and published Harry Potter
Even beyond c had to make hundreds of song To Get hello
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The greatest success is come from have ing 的freedom to fail
Now today
We have a level of wealth in equality that hurts everyone
When you can when you have the freedom
To take your idea and turn it into a historic enterprise
We all lose
And right now today our society is way over index on re war Ding people in their successful and not do nearly enough to make sure that everyone can take lots of different shot
I know that space that
There is something wrong with our system
When I can leave here and make billion of dollars and ten years while millions of students can t even afford to pay off their loans let alone start a business
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I know a lot of entrepreneurs
And I dont know a single person who gave up on starting a business because they were worried a might not make enough money
But I know too many people who have a chance to pursue their dreams if they dont have a cushion to fall back on if they failed
We all know you dont get successful just by having a good idea working hard
He get successful by being lucky too
If I m just support my family growing up instead of having a time to learn to code
If I dont know that I was gonna be fine a Facebook can work out that I would be standing up here today
Ne for honest
We all know how much luck we ve had To Get to disappoint in our lives
Every generation expand its definition of equality
Previous generations fought for de vote and civil rights
They have a new deal and great society
And now its time for our generation to define a new social contract
We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful
We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas
Were all gonna change jobs and roles many times so we need affordable childcare To Get to work and health care is not I just one employer
Or all gonna make mistakes so we need to society that is less focused on locking a stop and dig ni ty that s when we do
And as our technology keeps on of all we need a society that is more focused on providing continuous education through our lives
Yes
Giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose is gonna be free
People like me should pay for it
And a lot of you are gonna do really well and you should do
That is why personal and I started that and soccer berg initiative and come it is our wealth to promote ing equal opportunity
These are de value the of our whole generation
It was never a question if we were gonna do does
The only question was when
Millennium or already one of the most terrible generations in history
But its not just about giving money
You can also give time
And I promise to do
If you just take an hour to a week
Thats all takes To Give them a hand and help them reach their potential
Now maybe you are thinking thats a lot of time and mature if I have that much time
I used to think that
You want to steal a graduated from Harvard she became a teacher and before she do education work with me she told me that I need To Get my own experience teaching a class
At first I complained
You know kind of busy running a company
It Jim said
So I taught
And after school program data local boys and girls club entrepreneurship
De taught me what was like growing up feeling targeted for your wrist
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What its like having a family member in prison
I scared stories of my time in school
And a sure there hope that one day day would get Togo to college tu
For five years
I had dinner with those students every month
One of them even threw priscilla and me our first baby shower
And next year I m gonna call every one of them first generation in their families
We can all make time To Give someone a hand
Lets give everyone the freedom to pursue purpose not just because its the right thing to do but because when more people can turn their dreams into something great we are all better for it
Purpose does not only come from work
The third way we can create a sense of purpose for everyone is by building community
In our generation will we say purpose for everyone we mean everyone in the world
Now quick show of hands
How many of you here are from an other country
Company view our friends with one of these facts
Now or talking see we have we have grown up connected
In a recent survey of money around the world asking what most to find our identity
The most popular answer was a nationality of Mr d or religion
It was a citizen of the world
Thats a big deal
Every generation expand the circle of people we consider one of us
In our generation that now includes the whole world
We understand that a great arc of human history bend towards people coming together in ever greater numbers from tribes to cities to nations to achieve things that we could not on our own
We get that our greatest opportunities are now global
We can be de generation that ends poverty that ends disease
And we get that our greatest challenges need global responses too
No country can by climate change alone or prevent and m ix
Progress now requires coming together
Not just as cities or nations but also as a global community
But we live in an UN stable time
There are people left behind by globalization across the whole world
And it stuff to care about people in other places where we dont first feel good about our lives here at home
There is pressure to turn in words
Dis is a struggle of our time
Forces for the flow of knowledge trade and immigration
Against those to it slow them down
This is not a battle of nations
It is a battle of ideas
There are people in every country for more global connection and there good people against it
And does it can be decided d u ne der
It can happen at a local rebel
When enough of us feel a sense of purpose and stability and our own lives
That we can start to open up and care about everyone else to
And a best way to do that
It is a start building local communities right now
We all get a lot of meaning from our communities
For years from Ali a cost
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Our communities are houses or sports teams church is or ah couple of groups day give us a sense that we are part of something bigger
The we are not alone
Day give us the strength to expand our horizons
And striking that over the past few decades membership in all kinds of communities has declined by as much as one quarter
Thats a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose somewhere else
But I know that we can rebuild these communities and start new ones because many of you already are
M admin is a very
He is graduating today at the story
Navigate with human trafficking in Uganda
And now he res trained thousands of law enforcement officials to keep communities safe
M a l o o k in ni hi Jane
Graduating today to a stand up guys
K ne a started a non profit
That connects people suffering from chronic ill nes ses with people in their communities were willing to help out
And I met a v Dr Xu s graduation from the Kennedy school today David stand up
David isa former city council or who sought to make Mexico city the first Latin American city to pass the marriage equality even before san Francisco
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A mistake is my story to do
A student in a dorm
Connecting one community at a time
In keeping at it until one day we can connect the whole world
Change starts local
Even global change starts small with people like us
In our generation the struggle of whether we connect more when we achieve our greatest opportunities comes down to Dis
Your ability
Build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose
Class of twenty seventeen
You are graduating into a world that needs purpose
And its up to you to create it
Now maybe you asked yourself
Can I really do does
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Remember I told you about that class I ta boys and girls club
One day after class he was talking to my students about
Go to college and my top students raised his hand and said that he was UN sure he could go to college because he is UN doc u men to
He was UN sure sh aken
Last year I check it out To Breakfast for his birthday
Finally said you know I really just like a book on social justice
I was blown away
Here isa younger guy who has every reason To Be physical
He was UN ter is a country he calls home
The only one is own
Was gonna deny him his dream of going to college
But he was UN feeling sorry for himself
He was name thinking of himself
He has a greater sense of purpose and you gonna bring people along with him
It says something about our situation today that I can even say his name because I want to put it risks
But the high school senior
Sow before you walk out those gates one last time
And as we sit here in front of memorial church
M reminded of a prayer
Mr bear a
The nice day whenever I faced a big challenge
So I think to my daughter thinking of her future when I talk or in at night
And it goes
Made a source of strength
He is blessed the ones before us
Help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing
I hope you find the courage to make your life a blessing
Congratulations class to twenty seventeen good luck out there
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