The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
To not be afraid, to stand there and be strong and loving and honest.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life.
Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.
Whenever things seem absolutely terrible, to see that you’re alive and that’s all that matters.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
Impatience and being bossy.
The years I lost trying to fix my second marriage.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Kerry Godliman, John Simm, Bobbi Brown, Jo Nesbø, Matthew Modine
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