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TED Talks: JK Rowling - the fringe benefits of failure

At her Harvard University 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." 

 

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