Much has been written about JK Rowling's Speech to Harvard's graduating class this month. It's worth reading in its entirety, but if you're strapped for time, allow us to pull out the excerpt we (and clearly a few other media outlets) like best:

"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 I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, 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."


What to do with that on a Monday morning?

Chin up and get to work.


Read the full speech here.

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