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Aug 7, 2008

"We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better." --J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Power of Imagination

"One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the research department at Amnesty International's headquarters in London." So begins this inspirational piece in Greater Good Magazine on the power of the imagination by celebrity author J.K. Rowling.