In an emotional commencement address at Maharishi University in Iowa last month, comedy actor Jim Carrey dropped his usually goofy persona to give some solid, real-world advice to college graduates.

In this 61 second clip below taken from his speech, Jim tells the students a poignant story of how his late father inspired him to follow his dreams and to take a chance on doing what he loved and advised the students not to ‘play it safe’.

What an inspirational sentence; “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

Source: Maharishi University / You can watch the full speech here.

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