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But before you step out into our big, troubled world, I want to pass along a piece of advice that Bill Clinton offered me a little over a decade ago. Well, actually, when he said it, it felt less like advice and more like a direct order.

What he said was “turn toward the problems you see.”

It seemed kind of simple at the time, but the older I get, the more wisdom I see in this.

And that’s what I want to urge you to do today: turn toward the problems you see.

And don’t just turn toward them. Engage with them. Walk right up to them, look them in the eye... then look yourself in the eye and decide what you’re going to do about them.

In my experience, there’s just no substitute for actually going and seeing things.

I owe this insight, like many others, to my Mom. When I was a teenager, Mom thought it was important for us to see the world outside of Boston. And I don’t mean Framingham. She took us to places like Guatemala, where we saw extreme poverty up close. It changed my whole frame ofreference.

I think it was that same impulse that took my brother and me to Zambia in 2006, as part of the ONE Campaign — the organization that Bono founded to fight desperate, stupid poverty and preventable disease in the developing world. On that trip, in a small community, I met a girl andwalked with her to a nearby bore well where she could get clean water.

She had just come from school. And I knew the reason that she was able to go to school at all: clean water. Namely, the fact that clean water was available nearby, so she didn’t have to walkmiles back and forth all day to get water for her family, as so many girls and women do.

I asked her if she wanted to stay in her village when she grew up. She said, “No! I want to go toLusaka and become a nurse!”

Clean water — something as basic as that — had given this child the chance to dream.

As I learned more about water and sanitation, I was floored by the extent to which it undergirds all these problems of extreme poverty. The fate of entire communities, economies, countries iscaught up in that glass of water, something the rest of us get to take for granted.

People at ONE told me that water is the least sexy aspect of the effort to fight extreme poverty. And water goes hand-in-hand with sanitation. If you think water isn’t sexy, you should try to getinto the shit business.

But I was already hooked. The enormity of it, and the complexity of the issue, had already hookedme. And getting out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me on the pathto starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer named Gary White.

For Gary and me both, seeing the world ... its problems, its possibilities ... heightened our disbeliefthat so many people, millions, in fact, can’t get a safe, clean drink of water or a safe, clean, privateplace to go to the bathroom. And it heightened our determination to do something about it.

You see some tough things out there. But you also see life- changing joy. And it all changes you.

There was a refugee crisis back in ’09 that I read about in an amazing article in the New York Times. People were streaming across the border of Zimbabwe to a little town in northern South Africa called Messina. I was working in South Africa, so I went up to Messina to see for myself what wasgoing on.

I spent a day speaking with women who had made this perilous journey across the Limpopo River,dodging bandits on one side, crocodiles in the river, and bandits on the other. Every woman Ispoke to that day had been raped. Every single one. On one side of the river or both.

At the end of my time there I met a woman who was so positive, so joyful. She had just beengiven her papers and had been given political asylum in South Africa. And in the midst of this joyfulconversation, I mustered up the courage and said,

“Ma’am, do you mind my asking: were you assaulted on your journey to South Africa?”

And she replied, still smiling, “Oh, yes, I was raped. But I have my papers now. And those bastards didn’t get my dignity.”

Human beings will take your breath away. They will teach you a lot... but you have to engage. I only had that experience because I went there myself. It was horrible in many ways, it was hardto get to ... but of course that’s the point. There’s a lot of trouble out there, MIT. But there’s a lot of beauty, too. I hope you see both.

But again, the point is not to become some kind of well- rounded, high-minded voyeur.