【正文】 with might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for , your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person39。if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless。I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21yearold self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the is difficult, and plicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their opened handwritten, eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and of my coworkers were expolitical prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their to our offices included those who had e to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had bee mentally ill after all he had endured in his trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country’s regime, his mother had been seized and day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees people, whose personal wellbeing and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having can think themselves into other people’s course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages。對你們，我有最后一個希望，也是我在21歲時就一直在思考的。在我退出職業(yè)生涯后，尋找古老的生活智慧： 生活就像故事一樣，不在乎長度，而在于質量。or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own mencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can39。建立可實現的目標——這是提高自我的第一步。Looking back at the 21yearold that I was at graduation, is a slightly unfortable experience for the 42yearold that she has my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of ，對于今天42歲的我來說，是一個稍微不太舒服的經歷?？墒堑鹊礁改敢蛔唛_，我立刻放棄了德語而報名學習古典文學。當你成長到可以控制自我方向的時候，你就要自己承擔責任了。I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and welleducated, you have never known hardship or and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment su