This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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by David Foster Wallace · 2009

This Is Water is an essay and book based on a commencement speech delivered by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005. The work explores the importance of conscious awareness, empathy, and overcoming one's default self-centered setting in daily adult life.

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1 episode featuring This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Graham Duncan shares high-signal interviewing strategies and talent frameworks