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New Best of the Web talk: JK Rowling

Posted by: Matthew Trost
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JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

At her Harvard University 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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