Failure and the imagination

JK Rowlings speak at harvart commencement is one that focuses on a rather touch subject that most people never deal with, Failure. "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 of lived at all - In which case you fail by default". She goes on to talk about the power of imagination, "imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to in vision that which is not, and therefore the found of all invention and innovation. In its's arguably most transformative and revelotory capacity it is the power that enables us to empathy's with humans who's experiences we have never shared."