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.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
Steady, reaching, bewildered.
Passionate, loving, driven.
Loyal, relentless, goofy.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
A sense of what really matters.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
If I bothered to read instructions.
Douglas Booth, PP Arnold, Brandi Carlile, Charlie Higson, Naga Munchetty, Ben Okri
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