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Jools is a Methodist minister, currently working in Dublin Central Mission as Student Chaplain to Trinity college Dublin. 

He loves God, life, his work, the Irish rugby team, fine dining with great friends. He can cook a mean peppered chicken and rides bikes. Oh, yeah, he also does the odd triathlon ...

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JK Rowling on Failure
Saturday 12th May 2012 @ 11:48 am

In 2008 JK Rowling gave the commencement address at Harvard. One of her themes was failure … it’s an inspiring speech … below is part of it:

 

 

What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my ...

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