The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
All the times I was mean to someone.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗
I would have taken more drugs.
I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
Self-flagellation.
Being able to cram the quality of eight hours’ sleep into four.
Not being a scratch golfer.
Loyal, relentless, goofy.
It would be a racist comment.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
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