Benjamin Zephaniah: Who do you turn to when you need advice?

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Who do you turn to when you need advice?

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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions

Vogue's 73 Questions has repeatedly used this direct advice-network prompt.

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

Benjamin Zephaniah

British poet and author

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don't believe in discrimination when it comes to animals.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗

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Ben Kingsley English actor

I don't judge others.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 9 November 2013 source ↗

Cheryl Strayed Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things

I also think that most of us get wisdom from a wide range of sources, from the people we know and love, from strangers on the street, from therapists and counselors, from teachers, from books, from podcasts, so I turn in all of those directions.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss, 22 June 2018 source ↗

Bartees Strange musician

I started to look at it as a revolutionary act: Black people, brown people, queer people, women, building things that didn’t exist before. That could mean something even bigger than the message in the song.

Recorded The Guardian, The Guardian, 14 June 2022 source ↗

Reid Hoffman Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners

Well, that all comes from your network. And so even today with, well over 300 million people on LinkedIn, most people have yet to learn how to use their network, in order to ally with their network, in order to find the right economic opportunities. And that’s one of the things that I’m still working on.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Mountain View, California, 1 April 2012 source ↗