This collection of short talks speaks to high school and college students, their parents and teachers about success, school, college, friendship, boredom, bigotry, cheating, bulimia, effort, excellence, living a meaningful life, and many more ideas. In each of these talks, the goal is to say something that might penetrate the usual haze of boredom that hangs over school assemblies. The adults expect optimistic clich?s about hard work and success...