Take a leaf out of JK Rowling’s book and failure can see you soar

Bestselling author JK Rowling knows better than most what global success feels like. She hit the literary jackpot twice – with the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series and as her crime-writing alter ego, Robert Galbraith.
But it was not always thus. In 2008, she told an audience of graduates during a deeply affecting commencement address at Harvard University that there were benefits in failing. And how learning those lessons was worth more than any qualification she earned.