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It’s a catch - 22
I/he/she can’t take it anymore!
Keep me posted!
to give (some) advice
to be in demand
to be eager
Exercise 47. Read the text and discuss.
J.K. Rowling: Embrace failure (принять поражение). J.K. Rowling, author
of the best-selling children’s book series “Harry Potter,” knows a lot
about achieving (достигая) success (успех) — and failure. “I don’t think we
talk about failure enough,” Rowling recently (недавно) told Matt Lauer on
NBC’s “Today” show. “It would’ve really helped to (это очень бы помогло)
have someone who had had a measure of success (имели определённый
успех) come say to me, ‘You will fail. That’s inevitable (неизбежно). It’s
what you do with it.'” Before Rowling became one of the wealthiest (самых
богатых) women in the world, she was a single mom (одинокая мама) living
off welfare (жила за счёт социальной помощи) in the UK. She began writing
about her now famous (известный) character (герой), the young wizard
(волшебник) Harry Potter, in Edinburgh cafes, and received (получил)
“loads” of rejections (отказов) from book publishers when she first sent out
the manuscript, The Guardian reports. “An exceptionally (исключительно)
short-lived marriage (краткосрочный) had imploded (рухнул), and I was
jobless, a lone parent (одинокий родитель), and as poor as it is possible to be
in modern Britain, without being homeless … By every usual standard, I was
the biggest failure I knew,” Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University
commencement speech (речь в честь вручения дипломов). She went on to
say that she considered her early failure a “gift” that was “painfully won,”
(выигран с болью) since she gained (получила) valuable (ценные)
knowledge about herself and her relationships through the adversity
(несчастье).
Answer the questions:
1. What is this article about?
2. What would you do if you had so many rejections?
3. Where did she draw power from so to keep trying?
Exercise 48. Answer the questions.
1. What’s one thing you’re learning now or learned recently?
2. What’s something you saw recently that made you smile?
3. What’s something you saw recently that made you laugh?
4. What’s something you’ve done, but you’ll never do again?
5. What are you passionate about?

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