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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

J.K. Rowling

Hardcover | Pages: 74 pages

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Title	:	Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Author	:	J.K. Rowling
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 74 pages
Published	:	April 14th 2015 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Self Help. Writing. Essays. Inspirational. Adult. Autobiography. Memoir. Philosophy

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In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?

Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.

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Original Title:	Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
ISBN:	0316369152 (ISBN13: 9780316369152)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/j-k-rowling/very-good-lives/9780316369152/

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So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and

Life's good.You know, that life is 90 percent what happens to you and 10 percent how you react to it.Rightly so, we are all defined by the choices that we make. JKR amalgamates humor with emotions exhibiting the knowledge that accrues with time.There's a quote from this book that found its place onto my bedroom wall.Poverty is romanticized only by the fools.Richness comes in various currencies. Friends, money, career, society. Make sure you are #1 in each and every one of them.

Beautiful. This is going right next to Neil Gaiman's Make Good Art on my bookshelf.

Never was a more true word spoken. A gifted speech from a gifted author. Definitely worth then 20 minutes to finish it!

In Very Good Lives, J.K. Rowling shares the benefits of failure in one's life and why it is a necessity to overcome fears.I was browsing JKR's interview videos and stumbled upon this. That moment, something changed inside me. It's like you read a book and you know it has altered you in a good way, but you can't put it in words until you go back retrospecting.When I happened to know it was a commencement speech, I didn't know what does that word even mean!Commencement: a new start, beginning.So

Super short, but truly inspirational. It's amazing that the only reason we have the Harry Potter books today was because J.K.Rowling failed in everything else :) I don't mean it in a bad way. On the contrary, failure sometimes can free us and allow us to focus on the things we wouldn't even notice otherwise.

The reason I gave this book 4.5 stars instead of 5 is because it was so short. This is the published form of J K Rowling's commencement address to Harvard graduates in 2008. Her words of wisdom ring true to all, and she even managed to sneak in a few Potter references. I finished in about 15 minutes, and am wishful to think that J K can publish a longer book of essays, which I am sure many of us would be happy to read.