Want your college grads to remember that sound advice as they set out on their own? Forget a mnemonic or your personal testimony. Music is as powerful as smell for memory.

1. Top 10 College Grad Playlist (Advice): Gen X2Y
• Want your college grads to remember that
sound advice as they set out on their own?
• Forget a mnemonic or your personal
testimony.
• Music is as powerful as smell for memory.
• Using throwbacks to launch forward!

2. 1. “Doowutchyalike” – Digital Underground
Don’t wait for love when getting that job,
doing what you like is good enough while
you are exploring your career, but don’t do
something you dislike or hate.
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3. 2. “Give it away” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Before you draw a paycheck, volunteer at
something you love and commit to it for a
year. Whether its therapy horse riding,
environmental clean-up, inner city sports
programming… no one said love doesn’t
matter.
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4. 3. “Modern Love” – David Bowie
The workforce you enter might just really
have some open, different combinations of
lovers. But remember, it’s the love that
matters… and it should never be rationed
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5. 4. “Dance Naked” – John Cougar Mellencamp
This isn’t about love (but it could be), but go
ahead and read Froggatt’s Work Naked: Eight
Essential Principles for Peak Performance in
the Virtual Workplace. Don’t screw it up. We
all like that work flexibility and if Yahoo can
ban it, who is next?
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6. 5. “Stepping Razor” – Peter Tosh
As iron sharpens iron, so one person
sharpens another. Rub up against people that
sharpen (not dull) you. Especially a mentor
you are willing to help for free (wash the car,
staff a booth, volunteer at their favorite
charity).
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7. 6. “Best of You” – Foo Fighters
Don’t let anyone get the best of you… your
mind, your spirit and your body are sacred.
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8. 7. “Lawyers, Guns and Money” - Warren Zevon
Hopefully you won’t ever need to use these
to get out of trouble, but study their use just
in case. It’s too late once the battle is
engaged.
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9. 8. “The World’s Greatest” – R. Kelly
Be the best at something among all the
people you know – small engine repair,
changing the printer cartridge, cake
decorations, fly fishing, nunchuku skills. If
you go through a quarter-life crisis, your ego
will love you.
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10. 9. “No Woman, No Cry” - Fugees
With the change of a single word, this
becomes a hip lullaby. Get ready, kids are
coming and don’t wait too long… it’s nice not
to be thought of as your own kid’s
grandparent.
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11. 10. “It’s so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” – Boyz II Men
So don’t… immediately sign up for your
alumni club, and make sure to buy tickets at
least once a year for your favorite ballgame,
theater or music performance on campus.
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12. Bonus Track: “Fat Bottomed Girls” – Queen
This is a choose your own advice selection…
but it rocks and it rolls.
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