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Time & hindsight

Time & hindsight

Seven questions about advice, getting older, what you would put on a billboard, and the happiest moments you remember.

7 questions, 866 answers on the record, from 752 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.

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What counsel has proved most valuable to you?

George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States, 1989–1993

Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1995

If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I'd have to say, don't neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous.
Paul Farmer

Physician and medical anthropologist; co-founder of Partners In Health

Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2009

I had lots of teachers encourage me. And I still know some of them, my high school teachers. But one of them encouraged me.
Andrew Young

Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta

Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2013

Her lesson all the time was “To them to whom much has been given, of them will much be required.”
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Every question in this questionnaire

  1. If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25
  2. What made you stop something you were known for, and how did you know it was time? 14
  3. What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
  4. What worries you about getting older? 61
  5. What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
  6. What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28
  7. What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? 577

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