The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Resourceful, resilient and compassionate.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 March 2025 source ↗
Competitive, curious, silly.
Should talk less.
High-functioning introvert.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
Everest the hard way in 1975: leading the expedition that succeeded where so many people had tried and failed. That was the most complex mountaineering challenge I ever faced. I spent hours at night in a little tent thinking about what the next problem would be and how to solve it.
It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!
When I was climbing I was absolutely happy. I can use a climbing wall, but that’s not the same as real climbing.
Compassion, resourcefulness and resilience form a rounded good person. So that’s what I’d like to leave my children and grandchildren.
There are so many instances when I’ve come very close to death that it’s difficult to pick one.
The loss of Conrad.
Ally McCoist, Ali Abbasi, Caroline Lucas, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Richard Schiff, Charles Collingwood
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