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Miserable & Magical: a Graduation Speech for Paradoxical Times

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When the student body of an elite private school in Silicon Valley was given the chance to vote on who would give ...

Paths Are Made by Walking

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2012's Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania was an unconventional choice for an Ivy League ...

If You Want to Be a Rebel, Be Kind

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The night before, Pancho Ramos Stierle heard about growing tensions in the community and thought, "If police are ...

The Radical Power of Humility

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"Today I'd like to surface an unpopular virtue. One that's fallen out of favor in a time of selfies and relentless ...

Impact: Bill Gates & Mother Teresa

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"Two days ago, I was in China, speaking to a bunch of influential business leaders. One of them posed a challenge: ...

Finding Nimo: Rap Star's Journey with 16 Slum Kids

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At the pinnacle of a dizzying career, Indo-American rapper Nimo was haunted by an unshakeable sense of emptiness. In ...

Would Gandhi Use Social Media?

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"Any social-change hero succeeds in doing three fundamental things -- raising awareness, creating impact, and ...

Unlocking Multiple Forms of Wealth

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Much of today's society is designed through the lens of financial wealth, but is our world richer for it? Nipun ...

A Sparrow's Song to Lift up the Sky

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"The sparrow heard that the sky was falling, and while all the other creatures fled, she asked herself, 'What can I ...

The Spirit of Service

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Nipun Mehta gave his first public talk at a monastery. He was 25 years old and the subject was "The Spirit of ...

#MakeVirtueViral: a Graduation Speech for Uncertain Times

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"Commencement speakers are typically supposed to inspire you to make a splash in the world, be somebody, do ...

Arun Dada and Mira Ba

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How easy is it to "love your neighbor" when your intoxicated neighbor wakes you up in the middle of the night and ...

Graduation: a Song & Speech for the Ages

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Just in time for the millions of students around the world preparing for the milestone of graduation, comes this ...

When Generosity Meets Venture Capital

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What happens when someone who has spent much of his life on volunteerism and generosity keynotes an event for ...

Everybody Is Good at Something: Meeting V. R. Ferose

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V. R. Ferose was a rising star at SAP in Bangalore when he first found out that his son Vivaan was on the Autism ...

Can We Create Social Change Without Money?

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Can we create social change without money? Just holding that question can raise some very interesting insights. In ...

Algorithms & Love: Dancing with the Creative Tension of Our Times

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"The data we can extract, the data we handily give up for the sake of short-term convenience or simply out of ...

"I Teach to Learn": Compassion in Education

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"Learning, today, is heavily rooted in the material realm. It's almost an assembly line to get a job, to get money, ...

12 Questions Around Volunteerism

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In this thoughtful piece ServiceSpace founder Nipun Mehta fields twelve probing questions on how to nurture and ...

From Sharing Economy to Gift Ecology

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Technology advances and a consumer-based world have created a 'sharing economy', where it becomes easy to ...

Wings of Love

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On Christmas Eve of 1983, a personal loss changed the course of Nancy Rivard's life. In its wake she purposely got ...

Embrace the Grace, Celebrate the Infinite

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In a recent graduation address Nipun Mehta shares the origin story of ServiceSpace and the shifts catalyzed by ...

Science of Soul Force: How Your Heart Changes the World

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After a conversation with Rollin McCraty, HeartMath's Director of Research, and with profound insight, ServiceSpace ...

Giving Away a Billion Dollars -- or Not

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Best-selling author David Brooks was asked what he would do if he had a billion dollars to give. In his recent NY ...

#heartivism: Gently Shaking the World

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Today's activism is often built around an either-or logic -- my way or your way, where one way necessarily loses; in ...

Ani Choying: Gratitude and Service

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Ani Choying Drolma never expected to be a Rockstar Nun. She only wanted to be of benefit to others in her life and ...

Deepcasting in an AI World

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In a world rapidly evolving towards AI dominance, the essence of human connection is more vital than ever. In a ...

Meta Verse to Metta Verse

Nipun Mehta

In a digital age drowning in data yet starved for meaning, Nipun Mehta imagines a symbiotic dance between AI and ...

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