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The fringe benefits of failure: JK Rowling

by: posted Monday, February 7, 2011
Category: Education, Everything Else

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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."

 

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


FULL TRANSCRIPT: http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination

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