J.K. Rowling is a witty and motivating writer who set a great example by climbing out of poverty and becoming ridiculously successful, although she remarks that "Poverty itself is romanticized only by fools". She believes that people can be "driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success", and that failure is not fun, but it is necessary and builds the core of one's personality. To get over the fear of failure gives an overwhelmingly fresh and lightweight feeling. If you've lived too cautiously, "you might as well not have lived at all". J.K. Rowling has experienced a wider range of life than most average people, from severe poverty to amazing success. She believes strongly that every person should experience some sort of failure, but also that everyone should have an imagination. Imagination "is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
Steve Jobs was another well known successful figure who had strong beliefs in success and failure. In Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Isaacson writes that Jobs, at an early age, "was fascinated by the need for perfection". Decades later, he would still have zero tolerance for the imperfect, and the average.
Both of these people grew up in a less than wealthy life while they were young, but they brought themselves to success with determination and a lack of fear of failure. They both worked hard and wanted to help others for the greater good of humanity.
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