Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 20 May 2017 source ↗
Overthinking. I tend to conflate the amount of time spent on something with how good it is. Sometimes intuition is better than proof, and gut instinct better than hours of “work.”
Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.
My very wise and politically savvy 17-year-old daughter says I get too emotional about political issues. I think she’s right. She knows that if she sees me race across a room, I have just read something about Trump. Turning ideas into feelings is the thing an essayist is supposed to do, but political punditry should probably be more detached.
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, most of the time an intelligent and essential voice in American political life.
Adam Gopnik, Alain de Botton, Bill Nye, Celeste Ng, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Courtney Maum
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