Some mishaps can lead to happy accidents and there is no reason that your mistakes cannot affect your life in a positive way. …show more content…
J.K. Rowling is the famous author of the Harry Potter series. She was denied publication of her manuscript twelve times because Barry Cunningham finally took a leap of faith and accepted the challenge. Cunningham did however lack faith in Rowling, he even told her when agreeing to publish her book, that she needed to get a day job since there was no money in children’s books. While Rowling was talking to a graduating class at Harvard in 2008, she disregarded talking about success and insisted on talking about failure. She said “You might never fail on the scale I did, but 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.” Rowling wrote her first book of Harry Potter on an old manual typewriter, while supporting her child on her own but she never gave up hope. Despite what stood in her way, Rowling always pushed for her abilities to be believed in. In order to succeed you must exceed your own expectations for