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The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗
I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.
I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.
Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
By my friends and loved ones as someone who loved ferociously and always had their back.
Double-glazing sales when I was about 16 – on the phone, cold calling. Horrendous.
Loyal, relentless, goofy.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
Being able to cram the quality of eight hours’ sleep into four.
Not being a scratch golfer.
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