JK Rowling and the benefits of failure

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.