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This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, is a wonderfully and admirably done commencement speech to graduates for the school of Kenyon College, a liberal arts school located in Gambier, Ohio. Given in the year of 2005, Mr. Wallace explains to the audience of the recipients, family, and friends, about envisioning on how to expand your mind, and using your intelligence more thoroughly in the day to day lives of each and every person."Look, if I choose to think this way, fine, lots of us do-except that thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic it doesn't have to be a choice. Thinking this way is my natural default-setting. It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities". In these lines Mr. David Foster Wallace goes on about basic day-to-day and how we (the people in audience and public) are settling. He gives a speech about reality and the truth that most people don’t want to hear or do not usually think about. To be more aware of what is around you in the world. In the words he says, he states the words “The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: “This is water.” “This is water.” (Kowalski) While reading the an article of speech summary"3 PROFOUND LIFE LESSONS FROM “THIS IS WATER” BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE" by author Kyle Kowalksi he went on to explain his thoughts on his takeaway from the speech that we have strong beliefs that we believe so fondly but don’t hardly question the things around us. It is about the real value of a true education. He goes on to give the true meaning of what we make out of life is a matter of personal choices. It’s an aware decision of things we do. David Wallace tells the audience that we are all "very self-centered", not aware of what is around us. To not live by default in the quote “If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options.” he explains further what he means and how to be different and not to think basically, and think outside the box. As Mr. Foster goes further into his speech he is initially saying to keep an open mind outlook on life.

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