J.K. Rowling Harvard Video

by Hannah
(Oxford, UK)

This is focused failure and struggle, and on the power of imagination. She knows what it is to be a single mother with no future and how to get out of that situation. Before she achieved lots of success with the Harry Potter books and movie series, the author learned that failure taught things about herself that she could have learned no other way. I think this is an absolute must in the Famous Speech by Woman series. To put it short, in her memorable Harvard Commencement Rowling emphasizes how important imagination is in overcoming failures.

She urges us to use our status and influence to raise the voice of those who have no voice. She calls us to imagine ourselves into the lives of those who do not have privileges. It is loaden with citations that illustrates the core of her speech topics. Now watch and hear the memorable video in three parts:

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