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The fringe benefits of failure. 1,603,225 views |. JK Rowling |. Harvard University. • June 2008. Watch next. At her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned."
4 Jun 2024 · Personal struggles and adversity. Before achieving literary fame, J.K. Rowling faced significant personal challenges that tested her resolve. Following the death of her mother and the breakdown of her first marriage, Rowling found herself a single mother living on welfare in Edinburgh, Scotland.
23 Feb 2023 · J K Rowling’s Harvard speech. At her lowest ebb, she was unemployed, a single mother and in a depression so severe that at times she contemplated suicide. Coupled with her dire financial situation, Rowling had to rely on welfare benefits to survive.
30 Jul 2016 · By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew," Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech. Source: Business Insider, YouTube. Rowling received "loads" of...
14 Apr 2015 · J.K. Rowling gave the commencement speech at Harvard in 2008 and the result was a mini-masterpiece about life, the power of imagination, and failure. Though we all know now what a mammoth success she would go on to be, at one time, she was experiencing failure and poverty.
24 Apr 2017 · Seemingly definitive failures can often be debilitating. They break many, but JK Rowling’s story provides a rich narrative for how this kind of failure can be made temporary with the right...
5 Jun 2008 · J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
