My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Avoidance coping.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗
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Trying to do a million things at once.
Michael Flatley
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I don’t give myself that much thought.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
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If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
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Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
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