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J.K. Rowling on How to Deal With Failure in Life and Work
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J.K. Rowling on How to Deal With Failure in Life and Work

In August 1994, Joanne Rowling filed a restraining order against her husband, divorced shortly afterwards, and fell into a deep depression. Her one-year-old marriage had failed, and she suddenly found herself jobless, “as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless” and living off welfare

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Mayo Oshin Jan 17, 2019 • 6 min read
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The Physics of Failure: Why We Fail In Life and Work (and What to Do About It)

One day, in the 3rd Century BC, King Hiero II of Syracuse, Sicily, summoned Archimedes—a young, Greek physicist and mathematician, donning a long, flowing, white beard—to verify that his new crown was made of pure gold, or that some silver had been fraudulently substituted by the goldsmith. This

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Mayo Oshin Nov 26, 2018 • 6 min read
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