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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 realized, and I was still alive, and

  • I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

  • And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  • You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.

  • It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that

  • you might as well not have lived at all -- in which case, you fail by default.

  • Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

  • Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.

  • I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also

  • found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

  • The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you

  • are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

  • You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both

  • have been tested by adversity.

  • Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth

  • more than any qualification I ever earned.

  • So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing

  • that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

  • Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of

  • my age and older who confuse the two.

  • Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to

  • know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?

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J.K.羅琳在哈佛大學演講失敗的好處 (J. K. Rowling on Benefits of Failure Speech at Harvard)

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    林新新 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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