If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joss Stone said elsewhere, not written here
It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

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Robert Carlyle Scottish actor
I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.
Recorded Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995 source ↗
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
Sheena Easton Scottish singer
I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2017 source ↗

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