The question
If you could edit 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.
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
For persevering, and being a good role model.
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