J K Rowling's Life Advice Will Change Your Future One of the greatest Mindblowing Speeches Flawless Motivation

Poverty begets fear and tension and sometimes depression, it means a thousand little humiliations and hardships to get out of poverty by your own efforts, which is proud of itself but poverty is Romanticized only by fools What scares me the most was not poverty for me at your age, but failure at your age, despite a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I spent a lot of time writing stories at the coffee bar. had spent a long time and very little time in lectures I was used to passing the exam and that over the years has been the measure of success in my life and the talent and intelligence of my peers have not yet vaccinated anyone against the lure of fate Though you may be as motivated by the fear of failure as the desire for success ultimately we all have to decide for ourselves what failure is, but the world is eager to give you some benchmarks if you let it. So I think it's fair to say that any traditional remedy would be a good time for my graduation day. Only seven years later I had failed on an epic scale, an extraordinarily short-lived marriage had flopped and I was a single parent unemployed and as poor as possible in modern Britain without homelessness. my parents were there for me and what I did for myself both passed and by every normal standard, I was the biggest failure I knew I was not going to stand here anymore and tell you that failure was my For fun life was a dark one and I didn't know what the press represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution, I didn't know how far the tunnel stretched and that at the end no light would last long. Was a hope rather than a reality, hence why I talk about the benefits of failure only because failure means taking away the inevitability, I stopped pretending to myself that I was other than anything I was anything and all his energy began to be directed to only two. RK that mattered to me. If I had really succeeded in something else I would never have had the determination to succeed in a field where I believed I really was, I would be free gone because my biggest fear was realized and I was still alive and I still had a daughter I loved and I had an old typewriter and a big idea and so rock bottom became that solid foundation, on which I rebuilt my life, you can never fail on the scale that I did but some failure in life is inevitable, it is impossible as long as you live without failing at something Don't live so carefully that you can't live at all, in which case you fail by default, failure has given me an inner security that I never achieved by passing the exam. Taught me things I could have learned no other way, I learned that I had a strong will. There was strength and more discipline than I suspected, I also discovered that I had friends whose value was actually more than the cost of a ruby, the knowledge that you possess, merged wiser and stronger than failures meant that you are Always secure in your ability to survive You will never know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both are tested by adversity Such knowledge is a true gift to all that it is lived through pain And it's worth more than anything I've earned, so given a time turner, I'll tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life isn't a checklist of acquisition or achievement, Your qualifications your CV is not your life however you will meet many people my age and above who confuse the two life which is difficult and complicated and beyond one's total control and the humility of knowing what you need to do with it Now you might think that I have chosen my second subject. Imagination played a role in rebuilding my life because but not entirely, though I would personally defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp. It is only the uniquely human capacity to imagine that which is not and therefore the source of all invention and innovation. Haven't even shared one of the greatest creative experiences of my life before Harry Potter, although it told a lot about what I wrote later in those books, this revelation from one of my earliest days on the job. Came in as one, although I was sloppy to write stories during my lunch hours. I paid rent by working in the African research department of Amnesty International's headquarters in London in my early twenties, I chho Tay in office read hastily written letters that were trafficked from totalitarian regimes by men and women who were at risk of imprisonment for telling the outside world what was happening to them.

I saw photos of people who had disappeared without a trace and sent for an apology by their desperate families and friends I read torture victims' testimonies and saw photos of their injuries I handed down summary trials and several eyewitness accounts of kidnapping and rape Wrote from My colleagues were ex-political prisoners who had been displaced from their homes or fled into exile because they dared to speak out against their government; those who came to our offices included those who tried to provide information or Came here to try and find out. What happened to the people he left behind, I will never forget the African torture victim A young man no older than me at the time, who became mentally ill, after suffering everything in his homeland he was unrestrained and shivered as he was talking in a video camera about the cruelty done to him, he was a foot taller than me and looked fragile like a child, I was given the task of taking him back to the underground was later station and this man whose life was brutally shattered, held my hand with exquisite manners and wished my future happiness and as long as I live I walk along an empty corridor and suddenly A scream of pain would be heard from behind the closed door. And horror as I never heard. Ever since the door opened and the researcher pulled out his head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting next to him, all he had to do was inform him that in retaliation for the rule of his country. [MUSIC] Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded of how fortunate I was to live in a country with a democratically elected government. Where legal representation and a public trial were everyone's rights every day I saw more evidence of the evils that mankind would impose on their fellow human beings to gain or maintain power. I started having nightmares about certain things. Dreams I listened to and read and yet I learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I'd ever known before, Amnesty mobilized thousands of people who were never needed for their beliefs to act on their behalf and were not tortured or imprisoned. Those who have the power of human empathy that leads to collective action to save lives and free prisoners, whose personal well-being and safety are assured, join together to rescue those in great numbers. Those they don't know and will never fulfill my small involvement in that process. One of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life unlike any other creature on this planet human beings can learn and understand without experience, they can think of themselves in other people's places, surely it is through my imaginary magic A force like the brand is a morally neutral person who can use such an ability to manipulate or control as much as to understand or empathize and many prefer not to use their fantasies at all. experiment too, they like to be comfortable within the limits of their own experience, never bothering to wonder how it would feel if they were born other, they can refuse to hear the screams or peers inside cages they may close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally, they may refuse to know that I may be tempted to envy such people who can live that way, except that I don't think they have any fewer nightmares that I can live in narrow spaces. I choose to live in psychic agoraphobia and it brings its own fears, I think deliberately see more demons than the unimaginable, they are often more afraid of those who choose not to empathize more they enable real demons, never fully evil We get along with it without acting. Our own nostalgia was one of the many things I learned at the end of the classic corridor I set out at age 18 in search of something I couldn't define back then. It is written by the Greek writer Plutarch that what we achieve internally will replace the external reality which is an astonishing statement and yet it is proved a thousand times every day of our lives, it is our inevitable interaction with the outside world. Expresses the connection that we touch other people's lives just by existing we don't need magic to change our world we already take all the power we need within ourselves we have the power to imagine better as a story so how long is life but how much is it well it matters