J.K. Rowling · Harvard Commencement Address · 2008

The Fringe Benefits of Failure

~21 minutes · delivered 2008-06-05

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Delivered June 5, 2008. The case for failure as the necessary substrate of self-knowledge — and imagination as the lever that lets us empathize beyond our own experience.

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