Every year, graduating students participate in graduation ceremonies. Regardless of cultural differences, we are accustomed to the same scene, in which promising future plans are shared and speeches are given. The author, Tali Sharot, discusses whether such speeches are too optimistic and establish unrealistic expectations of the new graduates. The author began her article with setting up the scene of a typical graduation ceremony, and mentioned sample overoptimistic sentences that are usually included in such speeches. At this point, Sharot succeeded in attracting her audience’s attention to the importance of this argument. Meanwhile, she proposed a major question: if such a message of optimism is helpful in an era of unemployment, political
