Good morning!
今天是天天用英语毕业演讲季的第三天。一直到23号会讲一次毕业演讲，清晨朗读会的朗读内容会跟天天用英语同步，选毕业演讲当中很精彩的一段作为练习内容。
今天的毕业演讲是《哈利·波特》作者J.K. Rowling 2008年在哈佛大学的演讲。
Rowling的story很励志，选取的练习内容是关于失败failure。她讲了一个很有意思的概念：如果她没有在其他方面的失败，她很有可能就不会写Harry Potter。
当然，也不是说要失败好玩，但失败不只是学习的机会，也许某一方面的失败会给我们另一方面的成功的空间。
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今天的朗读内容不是很长，有时间的话可以多练习几遍！
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周三《激活英语》的课是关于“如何搞定语法”。如果大家有这方面的问题或困惑，可以发过来，我会尽量在课程中解答。如果有这方面的成功经历，活认为比较好的材料或工具，也可以发过来，如果我认为好的话也可以上课的时候分享。
Have fun!
John
p.s. 《每周一讲：三个月激活你的英语》的课程已经有440人报名。第一次关于“如何提高词汇量”的课已经讲完了，但报名后可以最是进去听。想了解更多可以扫这个二维码（扫码不一定要报名，可以先过去看课程的目录，看看是否感兴趣）：
朗读内容
Excerpt from commencement speech by J.K. Rowling at Harvard University
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
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