I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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View all 53 →That I would have focused more on languages.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
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View profile →Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
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