Contemporary American novelist and writer
When we had children at home.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2020
Life experience & transition
Life after work: a retirement review
A long-view record of choices, work, relationships, enough, regret, joy, and what became clear only with time.
12 questions, 1,270 answers on the record, from 879 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?
I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2014
English cricketer
With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2019
Every question in this questionnaire
- What became visible only after your working life slowed down or ended? 16
- Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time? 6
- Which decision paid off only after many years, when its value could not yet be proved? 6
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78
- What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong? 7
- When did you first understand what enough meant for you? 6
- Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent? 6
- What made you stop something you were known for, and how did you know it was time? 14
- If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? 203
- What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? 577
- How would you want people to remember you? 213
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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AVAbraham Verghese
Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University
3 answers United States / Ethiopia b. 1955
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AC
2 answers b. 1960
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Adam KayBritish comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician
2 answers United Kingdom b. 1980
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ALAdam Lambert
American singer
2 answers United States b. 1982
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Adrian EdmondsonEnglish actor, comedian, musician and writer
2 answers United Kingdom b. 1957
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Adwoa AboahBritish fashion model
3 answers United Kingdom b. 1992
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Aidan GillenIrish actor
2 answers Ireland b. 1968
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Albie SachsAnti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
2 answers South Africa b. 1935
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AH
2 answers b. 1981
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AL
3 answers b. 1995
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Alison SteadmanBritish actress
3 answers United Kingdom b. 1946
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Amy TanNovelist; author of The Joy Luck Club
3 answers United States b. 1952
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