Here are the five pieces of advice actor Rainn Wilson from 'The Office' gave during his graduation speech at Utah's Weber State University.
The actor known for playing Dwight Schrute spoke to students about happiness, love and community — plus Dungeons and Dragons.
Setting aside concerns about identify theft, it was a romping combination of both the actor and the role that’s come to define him, alongside his work as an author and advocate. Celebrity Rainn Wilson reacts as he receives an honorary degree during the graduation ceremonies at Weber State University in Ogden on Friday, April 26, 2024.
To do that, he said, the graduates should embrace kindness, humility, honesty, wisdom — what he referred to as “spiritual virtues.”Life, he said, should be focused on each person acquiring those qualities and flexing them like muscles in the gym. “Instead of leg day, have one day be compassion day,” he said.
The next weekend, Seligman instructed the students to be of service to someone else — visit a sick relative or “watch ‘The Office’ with a depressed friend,” Wilson suggested. They took the survey once again. Their scores increased and stayed higher longer. The actor joked that it didn’t actually have to be that game — though it helped him as a teenager — but could be anything where you are present, connect with people and “put your d--- phones away.”
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