Princeton Baccalaureate 2012: Michael Lewis

黃丙喜 · October 24, 2014 at 2:51 am

Money has four angles, there are money and market, money and moral, money and minute, and money and honey, each angle should be balanced in harmony; otherwise, you life will be artificial poverty, even you have a lot money. .  

Steve Lively · August 18, 2015 at 12:43 pm

This is in a series of texts from the textbook I use with my English 12 students.  It’s a wonderful (and relatively brief) addition to the theme of “Chasing Success.”  While I’ve not read any of Mr. Lewis’s books, I now must add them to my to-read list!

Faith Marion · September 29, 2015 at 2:59 am

Wow ! He is amazing , success is luck , and with luck their comes obligation (claps) I love it !

Frillazeus Herla · February 19, 2016 at 11:12 am

an honest speech 🙂

Taryn Lambert · September 5, 2016 at 9:35 pm

+javi hd lol same

Mario 6125 · September 13, 2016 at 3:35 am

When Ms. Diaz makes you watch this video 😑😤

Ed Saylor · November 12, 2016 at 5:10 pm

The best argument for this rebuttal comes from Aristotle who came up with the following pure logic:

Statement 1: X will occur

Statement 2: X will not occur

One of these statements must be true and the other one must be false. For the sake of argument, let us say that 1 is true and 2 is false. That means that the statement “X will occur” is true. More precisely, statement 1 was ALWAYS true, even before X actually occurred.

A curious thing happens then. If statement 1 was always true, then X was always going to occur. But if X was always going to occur then it is impossible for X not to have occurred. This means that X could not have not occurred. That which cannot not occur must necessarily occur. And so we see that X occurred out of necessity and not because of chance, luck, or human decision.

Now let’s put this in context of Michael Lewis’ speech. Using the above logic, Michael Lewis would sit next to the wife of a big shot at Salomon Brothers which was true even before it took place. And if that statement was true before the event took place, then Michael Lewis was always going to sit next to the wife of the big shot at Salomon Brothers. And that which cannot not happen happens out of necessity. And so it would seem that it was predetermined that Michael Lewis would always sit next to her.

This takes luck completely out of the picture and leaves only fate.

love Taeyeon · February 7, 2017 at 5:43 am

he is so briliant and innovation.i love very very my princeton university.i’m graduate 2015so this video isn’t gradate studen?i’m so confused….actually i’m right to gradate2015

Ricky Chavez · August 17, 2017 at 10:45 pm

South Lake High English teacher made me watch this 🙄

Emmanuel Amofah · August 28, 2017 at 2:11 am

English class