Relationships
Five questions about who formed you, what friends are for, love, parenting, and who you turn to.
5 questions, 353 answers on the record, from 349 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
When you need counsel, who is the first person you call?
United States Army general; commander of coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War
My wife, my children, my friends, myself. I’m my own strongest critic. I am much tougher on myself than anybody I know, consistently.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1992
American physician-scientist
I surround myself with brilliant people who are wise and whose advice I can lean on at every possible moment. The Genome Project is a wonderful team effort.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2000
Artist
Still, I do have people I turn to before that point… I’ll send my ideas or images to a friends group chat or I ask my boyfriend, you know?
Recorded · The Talks · 2022
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
2 answers
Mountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
2 answers New Zealand 1919–2008
Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
2 answers United States 1928–2014
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
2 answers Egypt b. 1942
General
Twelve questions in FLAPSS wording — taste, daily life, craft, failure, and who formed you. The place to start if you have no idea where to start.
Reading & recommendations
Five questions about books you pass on, books that changed you, gaps on your list, and long-form work that stayed with you.
Craft & work
Six questions about how you work, what your job really is, and the advice your field gets wrong.