Margaret Duarte

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J K Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

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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.”

I was so impressed with JK Rowling’s speech, as presented on TED, that I had to share it with you.

It is 20 minutes well spent.

J K Rowling Website

Want to know more, visit JK Rowling’s website.

Though she’s best known for her Harry Potter series, J K Rowling has also written other works worth reading.

Check out:

The Cormoran Strike Novels and The Casual Vacancy.

Enjoy.

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  1. Rosi says

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