The 9 Things Every New Graduate Should Know - book

Product Features

• From Brianna Wiest — internationally bestselling author of The Mountain Is You, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Pivot Year, and more.
• Her books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide, appear regularly on international bestseller lists, and are translated into more than 40 languages.
• In May 2024, Brianna Wiest returned to Elizabethtown College to deliver the commencement address to its graduating class. "The 9 Things Every Graduate Should Know" is that speech, transcribed and designed as a book: nine lessons she wishes she had known at the moment of her own beginning, written to an audience of one — the version of herself standing on exactly that threshold.
• A few of these lessons:
• 1. Don't reject yourself first. The world will have plenty of chances to reject you. Don't give it a head start by never entering the arena. Victories, Wiest argues, become inevitabilities — but only for those who keep going.
• 2. Do not stop believing you can create a life you love, even after chapters you didn't like. The past holds no bearing against your presence. Every day you have the chance to change your life.
• 3. The losses and lows of your life are your most significant opportunities for self-investment. What looks like isolation is actually, temporarily, freedom — a release from unconscious limitation. Never waste a crisis.
• 4. You must live in a way that other people won't, if you are to live in a way that other people can't. You become what you repeatedly do. What is celebrated in public was perfected in private.
• This is a short, beautifully designed book — transcribed speech, typographically presented, the kind of object that reads in a single sitting and stays with you for years. It makes an ideal gift for anyone graduating, transitioning, or standing at any threshold and asking what comes next. Perfect for:
• Graduates of high school, college, or any program — the primary audience, directly addressed
• Anyone in transition: career change, relationship change, starting over, starting fresh
  
• Readers of Wiest's longer works (The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, 101 Essays) who want her most direct, personal, and concentrated voice
• Gift buyers looking for something more substantive than a card, more personal than a generic inspirational book, and specifically calibrated to the moment of a graduation