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Daily life

Six questions about how your days start, what you refuse, and the small habits you keep.

6 questions, 121 answers on the record, from 89 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.

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Worth reading

What is an unusual habit or small pleasure you are oddly fond of?

Joe Lycett

Comedian, television presenter and artist

Recorded · The Observer / The Guardian · 2024

I love going to the tip. A friend reassured me once that if I ever get cancelled, I’ll still have the tip, and she was absolutely right. Even Britney Spears has the tip!
Roddy Doyle

Novelist, dramatist and screenwriter

Recorded · The Guardian · 2010

Do keep a thesaurus, but in the shed at the back of the garden or behind the fridge, somewhere that demands travel or effort.
Charlie Munger

Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023

Recorded · Speakola · 2007

All my life, I've gone through life anticipating trouble. And here I am, well along on my eighty-fourth year, and like Epictetus, I've had a favored life.
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Every question in this questionnaire

  1. What does the first hour of your day look like? 17
  2. What is an unusual habit or small pleasure you are oddly fond of? 31
  3. In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life? 21
  4. In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to? 22
  5. When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? 23
  6. What small daily ritual do you keep that most people would consider a waste of time? 7

Who has answered

Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.

  • Ahmed Zewail

    Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999

    2 answers Egypt / United States 1946–2016

  • Barack Obama

    44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

    2 answers United States b. 1961

  • Brian Eno

    Composer, record producer and visual artist

    3 answers United Kingdom b. 1948

  • Colm Tóibín

    Novelist, essayist and critic

    2 answers Ireland b. 1955

  • David Vélez

    Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank

    3 answers Colombia

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    Derek Sivers

    Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want

    2 answers United States

  • Ellie Simmonds

    British Paralympic swimmer, 2008–2021

    2 answers United Kingdom b. 1994

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    Hilary Mantel

    Novelist and critic

    2 answers United Kingdom 1952–2022

  • Joe Lycett

    Comedian, television presenter and artist

    2 answers United Kingdom b. 1988

  • Juana Molina

    Singer, songwriter and former television comedian

    2 answers Argentina b. 1961

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