Course content. Module 1

The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling is one of the richest women in the world with a net worth of $1 billion. But before publishing her first novel, "Harry Potter and the Stone's Philosophers," she had suffered a personal failure on an epic scale. Not only did her marriage fail, but she was a single mother on welfare.

Source: Wikipedia

When she finished her first Potter Novel, she has sent it to 12 publishing houses, all of which rejecting the text. A year later, Rowling found a publisher, but was told to get a day's work because she probably wouldn't make money from children's books. But that wasn't stopping her.

She ultimately wrote seven books in the series and gained a worldwide following. She says, “Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected.” (Cherry, 2020)