May 12th
Austin Theater, Braeburn School, Gitanga road
This week’s theme is 'the fringe benefits of failure and a new definition of success'. They will screen a speech made by “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling at her Harvard commencement speech. It offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” Speaker Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.