a wonderful commencement speech given by J K Rowling to the Harvard Class of 2008. a friend sent me this and i listened to it after a really tough day...
i've been job hunting and while it hasn't been that difficult to get interviews etc. it's still depressing when all you anticipated was that you'd never have to do this interviewing crap again because you thought you were in a job that you'd be able to retire from. leaving the job was, to me, a sort of failure. i didn't achieve all i had wanted to, in fact, i lost the ambition to even try.
today, after a short stint working at an unsuitable clinic, i find myself getting ready to take on a new opportunity. i'll be pushed to get over my faulty confidence. i'll be pushed to learn more and do more. i had two ways in which to turn and decided on one solely based on how scared i was to be challenged... i picked the job that gave me the most butterflies...
how else to learn and grow?