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

the benefits of failure
and the crucial importance of imagination


there is an expirey date for blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction
poverty entails fear and stress, depression, - romanticized only by fools

ultimately we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure. the world will try to convince what it believes it is

failure means a stripping away of the inessential
doing only the work that mattered to me

set free - greatest fear had been realized - and i was still alive
rock bottom became the solid foundation

come failure in life is inevitable
unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default

you will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity, such knowledge is a true gift, worth more than any honor or achievement.

importance of imagination
not only the unique human capacity to envision that which is not
the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared

they can refuse to know, might be tempted to envy them except i do not think they have fewer nightmares than i
choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental aprophobia and that brings its own terrors
the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid

those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters

we do not need magic to transform the world, we already have it in us


as is a tail - so is live, not how long it is, how good it is , is what matters

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