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Bill Murphy Jr.
May 20, 2020
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We're in the middle of graduation season (virtual, anyway) and before it all ends I wanted to share something I've learned from commencement speeches.

I studied these a bit when I was doing a lot of ghostwriting. I know how to write books, but I had to learn how to write speeches—and these addresses are a great way to learn about pacing, structure, lang…

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