Climate change, duh.
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Oh, all the time. We have a fear all the time. But that’s what keeps us going, that’s what keeps us focused. You have to have a fear. People who say, “I have no fear. I’m not afraid of ever failing,” are kidding themselves. Sometimes it’s the fear of failure, of not wanting to fail, that makes people as great as they are. I know that’s what pushes me, a lot.
Academy of Achievement, 12 February 1991 source ↗
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View all 266 →It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
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Cellist
Very large bugs.
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View profile →My father tried to make me think twice. "Son, calm down," he said. "Stick it out."
With all due respect to Procter & Gamble, I wanted to be an entrepreneur.
Education is the cornerstone of unlocking human potential, and it's something I believe should be available to every individual, regardless of their circumstances.
One person that is my role model is my father. ... He’s a man who taught me something very important. And that was — give back to society what you’ve taken out.
I have always been impatient.
I'd argue that while no doubt mistakes have been made, including by us and KKR, many have misunderstood (or greatly simplified) the model. They have overlooked how value is created -- and for whom.
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