Very Good Lives
The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
About the book
J. K. Rowling's 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University, published in book form. Drawing on stories from the years after her own graduation, she considers how to embrace failure and how imagination can help people improve both themselves and others, speaking to anyone at a turning point in life.
Web Profits co-founder Sujan Patel included it among seven books every entrepreneur should read, saying entrepreneurs will value what Rowling says about the upside of failing and the role of imagination.
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Sujan Patel (Co-Founder/Web Profits)
Harry Potter nerds and business buffs alike will devour J.K. Rowling's Very Good Lives. The story draws from a commencement speech Rowling gave at Harvard University, and inspiration from her own life and failures. Entrepreneurs will love how she explains the benefits of failure and the crucial importance of imagination.
This is the book for those who are facing the grim realities of being broke and failing, and those graduating from college. Her main point is the importance of perseverance. Even someone who is on welfare and feeling hopeless could still turn that great idea into a business that launches the next Harry Potter franchise.
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