The Magic Of Failure

J. K. Rowland gave the commencement address at Harvard this year, and she decided to speak about the importance of failure and of imagination:

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

I've discovered that I love a good commencement speech, perhaps because they seem to be quite rare. This is one such speech – take a few minutes to hear (or read) what Rowland offers to some of our planet's most privileged youth.