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You Are Not Special : And Other Encouragements Condition:Good or is Kristen out ofMcCullough's graduation speech "You Are Not Special" struck a cultural nerve and instantly went viral. Children today, says David McCullough, are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success. The intense pressure to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self confidence from those failures. In "You Are Not Special" McCullough elaborates on exploring how, for what