This Is Worth Remembering: Graduation Wisdom for a New Tomorrow (An Illustrated Guide)---The Perfect Gift to Celebrate Your Grad
About this ebook
This is Worth Remembering will inspire your graduate with highlights from memorable commencement messages by leading thinkers, scientists, social activists, musicians, and more, all in a unique illustrated format from renowned New Yorker cartoonist Drew Dernavich.
Today’s graduates face a world where uncertainty abounds, but where opportunities await those who proceed with determination and wisdom.
This collection of encouraging and hopeful commencement speeches by individuals like Allyson Felix, Hank Green, Angela Duckworth, Patton Oswalt, and more will give your graduate the collective wisdom of some of today’s best and brightest, as they set off on the exciting road ahead.
Inside, your grad will find speeches on topics like:
- Using your creativity
- Finding connection in an isolating world
- Money vs. Happiness
- Extending empathy and compassion
- Technology vs. humanity
- Freedom and democracy
Each speech, told through Dernavich’s full-color illustrations, features a short bio and illustrated portrait of the speaker along with a visual representation of their inspiring words. From athletes and actors to economists and entrepreneurs—each of these accomplished speakers imparts wisdom that is truly worth remembering.
With this book, your graduate can get the same kind of encouragement and wisdom as recent graduates of schools like Duke, William & Mary, Princeton, Georgia, Stanford, Michigan, and beyond, and gain inspiration for wherever life takes them in the future.
Laced with touches of humor and a prevailing theme of hope for the future, this book is the perfect gift for graduation or any new career or personal venture! This is Worth Remembering is also ideal for educators, info nerds, life coaches, business leaders, and more.
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About the author
Drew Dernavich is publicly known as a cartoonist for the New Yorker (and other publications), and this practice of graphic note-taking has been his main profession for over 20 years. He has illustrated the career stories of candy executives at Mars and storyboarded a breakthrough project with Amazon Web Services for a fertility treatment campaign. He has done similar work with organizations of every size and in every industry: Google, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and NYU, among others. When his church became livestream-only during the pandemic, he took notes on the weekly sermons as a way to keep the congregation connected and engaged. Drew is a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, having published hundreds of cartoons there over the past few decades, and he has previously written and illustrated monthly columns for Esquire and The Awl. He is also the author and illustrator of two children's books. His most recent, Elvin Link, Please Report to the Principal's Office, was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and Amazon Editor's Pick.
