JK Rowling: The Benefits Of Failure

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By Steve Spalding August 20th, 2010
Under: Digital University

Summary: At her Harvard commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”

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