Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Fringe Benefits of Failure

I've been thinking a lot about failure lately and I came across this quote. "Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn." That's good. In other words, if we learn from failure, we don't ever have to lose. Some of the best lessons ever learned are birthed out of bad times.

Below is the Commencement Address given by J.K. Rowling at Harvard University. It's a captivating speech in which Rowling-- the multi-millionaire author of the wildly-popular Harry Potter series-- says that the only reason she became a success ... was that she was an utter failure first. It's worth a listen.


Learn from your failure and you can always move ahead.