Famous author JK Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, the wizard grew
up with a whole generation, in
2008 gave a magnificent speech to the graduates of Harvard, a speech
that all young people should hear.
She focused on a special theme: the benefits of failure. The
richest author in the world wanted to speak to young
people, that faced the so-called real life, about what she
learned from her failure.
This is an incredibly formative approach, because
instead of talking about dreams realized,
goals achieved, the meaning of being a famous writer and what she can
feel about selling 11 million
copies of her book within 24
hours of release, she told how
the poor failure of his life when she was in
her early twenties led her to strip
off everything that was not
essential for her to understand
what she really wanted to do in life and focusing on it.
Describing with ruthless honesty the feelings of that time, "I found myself to be the biggest failure that I had known, it was a dark period in which I
had no idea that there would be
what the press now calls a happy ending. I
had no idea how much the darkness
would last for a long time and the light at the end
of the tunnel was a hope rather than a reality".
JK Rowling explained, however,
that it was precisely in that period that she succeeded in channeling her energies on what she truly loved:
writing. The failure became the basis
from which she started with
determination to do what she had always
wanted to do, without fear of
losing anything because she had yet lost
everything.
She started again from there, "I
had an old typewriter and a big idea."
This is the reason why, she said to the graduates, "each of us, in different
forms, should experiment with
his/her own idea of failure."
And from it, to start again.
