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There are few commencement speeches that last beyond the day they’re given.

One is Steve Jobs’ 2005 address to Stanford’s graduating class, where he famously used three stories to memorably define his life.

Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson used the same format in his Sunday commencement speech at Pomona College. He spoke about Jobs and his other most recent biography subjects, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, to drive home an incredibly important lesson.

“You are officially credentialed as smart,” Isaacson told graduates. “That’s the good news. The bad news, as you’ll learn, is that smart people are a dime a dozen, and they usually don’t amount to much.”

Using one of the phrases most associated with Jobs, Isaacson argued that it’s something other than smarts that defines the most successful people.

“What really matters is those who are creative, those who are imaginative, those like Steve Jobs, who can think different,” he said.

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