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The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
A travel agent, so I could see the world.
I was born in Osaka, Japan. It was 45 years ago. My father has a small factory in Osaka, and we lived next to his factory
Analytical, extreme and playful.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
If I bothered to read instructions.
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