1. How to confront the fear of failure ( Please read and correct me! ) I watched J.K Rowling's speech at Harvard University graduation on Youtube. That was quite impressive and touching because she talked about the fear of failure that I always have had. Especially she is one of most famous writesr in the world and she went through this fear like ordinary people. Sharing of her experience comforted me in a way. She said she had failed on an epic scale. She was jobless, her marriage had imploded, she was a lone parent and poor. Only things she had were a lovely daughter , an old typewriter and a big idea. Then she realized that failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. She stopped pretending to herself and directed all her energy into finishing her work that mattered to her. She rebuilt her life to the solid foundation. Failure gave her inner security and taught her things about herself. She had been tested by adversity and that experience became a true gift to her. Since I am working as a self-employ artist, I've been working with the possibility of failure and being rejected. But I determine as of today that I am not going to hate a failure. I believe that will strengthen my mind and will grow me up more than before failure. If you don't have failure experience in your life, it can mean that you're really really lucky and genius or you didn't try enough things.