I think most of you will be able to answer me: “It’s JK Rowling!” or “The author of Harry Potter!” This post will be another one of my favorite articles, as I can learn a lot from someone who is shy and once relied on benefits to get by, but who is determined, focused, hopeful, and persistent.

Someone asked her: “Who did she write for?” Her response was: “It’s for me. Only for me. I’m very selfish: I only write for myself. So the humor in the books is really what I find funny.” A little surprised but not really surprised by her response, as I think that’s why she’s willing to take almost 17 years (from one Harry Potter idea to the completion of 7 books) to write the series.

In the mid-1990s, when she was raising her daughter alone and couldn’t afford a used typewriter (let’s not even talk about the computer), she wrote the first drafts of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” using just pen and paper. It was a time when she was traveling to London on a crowded train, the idea of ​​Harry Potter came into her mind. Unfortunately, she didn’t have a working pen to start writing with and she was too shy to ask someone for a pen. She just had to keep all her ideas in her brain for the entire 4 hour drive, until she got home.

So if you think your shy personality will prevent you from succeeding, think about JK Rowling!

Why do people fail? Lack of resources or lack of ingenuity? Rowling didn’t have the money, the connections, or the opportunity, but her creativity, imagination, and her passion for writing about her led to the success she is today. Who said writing children’s books would sell? His seventh and final book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its publication in 2007. One of the limited copies of his latest book “Tales of Beedle the Bard” It was auctioned off and bought. for $3.98 million by Amazon.

When you have found your passion/talents/gift/strengths, dare to dream and don’t give up. You will find the success you desire. Success doesn’t mean you have to sell millions of copies of books, but follow your heart and people will eventually love and appreciate your work! She inspired me to write my own book too (one of my dreams in life).

I also listened to his 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University and here is a part that I liked the most:

“If you choose to use your status and influence to speak out on behalf of those who have no voice, if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but also with the powerless, if you retain the ability to imagine yourself in the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families that will celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped to change. We don’t need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we already need within ourselves: we have the power to imagine better”.