The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
![]() |
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. JK Rowling, June 2008
Failure
Failure let me find myself, don't fake the another me, failure let me concentrate on my work, if you have been suffered by a huge failure, you will not fear the dread and consequence again, just start from failure to successful. The knowladge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setback means that you are, even after, secure in your ability to survise. you will never truly know yourself, or strength of your relationship, until both have been tested by adversity. such knowledge is a ture gift for all the fainfully won, and it has been worth more than qualification I ever earned
Imagination
human can learn and understand, without having experiened. they can think themselves into other people's place. so we should stand into the others situation, and think about them as yours, then, your emtion will bring to do something for them.
that I learned from the speech
。。。
So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives.