Assume the Worst

 Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear by Carl Hiaasen 39 pp.

This is not the commencement speech you expect to hear. Hiaasen takes all those charming platitudes espoused for a happy, successful life after graduation and turns them on their heads. In essence, those very platitudes that one hears, "Live each day as if it were your last," and "If you set your mind to it, you can be anything you want to be," sound nice but in reality are not realistic. Most of us do our best to plod through life in a job that just manages to support us in the mundane way we've become accustomed. But this book isn't just dream crushing scenarios. It does end with some solid advice on living your life.