Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
Lasting this long.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing is the same as the sense of pride and achievement I feel when I see my kids growing up and enjoying the simple pleasures in life.
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Akio Toyoda
President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023
Above all, the transformation into a product-centered company. I believe that laid the foundations for future growth and allowed me to hand over to the next leadership.
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overseas dealer representatives and guests, Akio Toyoda’s Juku, Toyota Times, 14 November 2023
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Bozoma Saint John
Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix
My daughter. She’s awesome and it’s because I’m awesome. Lol.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
British space scientist and science educator
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
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View profile →I sleep very well. Nothing keeps you awake when you know within yourself how much you care, how much you give, and that you always try your best. And that’s true for me, whether it’s on the pitch, on the international stage leading the line for my country, or at home.
Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
I just wanted to fulfil my potential.
I only really care about my own opinion of myself, and my family and friends’ opinion of me. The rest is just noise.
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