J.K. Rowling on Failure And Imagination

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

"…why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

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