此刻，標(biāo)簽是“勵志”

他們年輕時是普通人，既沒有表現(xiàn)出出眾的才華，家庭條件也一般。歲月流逝，后來他們克服種種磨難，在各自的領(lǐng)域都取得了卓越的成就。他們是怎樣取得成功的？內(nèi)心最珍視的又是什么？請聽JK?羅琳、施瓦辛格娓娓道來。

或許，此刻貼上的標(biāo)簽是“勵志，收獲的是滿滿的人生財富，啟人心智，發(fā)人深省。

這是J.K.羅琳在哈佛大學(xué)2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講。她帶著作家平實、儒雅，講述其親身經(jīng)歷，幾經(jīng)磨難，走過黑暗日子后發(fā)出無限感慨。原來，失敗并不可怕，或許能帶來意想不到的好處。

The Fringe Benefits of Failure (excerpt)

J.K. Rowling

Half my lifetime ago， I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself， and what those closest to me expected of me. I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do， ever， was to write novels. However， my parent both of whom came from impoverished① backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college， took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk② that could never pay amortgage， or secure a pension. I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.

I would like to make it clear， inparenthesis③， that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel， responsibility lies with you. What is more， I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves and I have since been poor， and I quite agree with them that it is not aennobling experience. Climbing out of poverty by your own effort that is something on which to pride yourself， but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.

Now， I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one， and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else， I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free， because my greatest fear had been realized， and I was still alive， and I still had a daughter whom I adored， and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.