J.K. Rowlings Tal På Harvard

År 2008 framförde J.K. Rowling ett så kallat "commencement speech" på Harvard. Jag har ingen aning om vad den svenska översättningen må vara, men jag antar att det menas det där talet som man ger till studenter, som nu har knuffats till livets tröskel; som skall uppmuntras, få sig en och annan insikt i bagaget och lite hopp därtill.
Hennes tal är omkring 25 minuter långt, och uppdelat i tre delar på Youtube.

                     

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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 where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free: because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive and I still had a daughter, an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."