Peyton Manning
American football quarterback
Pressure is something that you feel only when you don’t know what you’re doing
What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?
Daily life
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What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck?
Craft & work
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How does a new work begin for you?
Craft & work
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What is your worst intellectual habit?
Craft & work
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How do you balance creative work with other responsibilities?
Daily life
Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox used this exact prompt throughout its named 9 Questions series on intellectual habits.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I guess you’ve just got to take each day at a time
Rachel Cooke, Interview, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗
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Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I don’t believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere I can say to myself, “At least I’m living; at least I’m doing something; I’m making some contribution”—it’s just psychological.
Recorded
Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985
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Ja’Tovia Gary
visual artist and filmmaker
It requires me to be in prayer and meditation daily, or else I will literally spiral out. It’s something that I put at the forefront of my life.
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
People need justice.
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The only habit you can rely in the Scarlet O'Hara rule: Tomorrow is another day. And you hope you are there for it.
Then I think to myself, Well, start. Start. Start.
My half measures are really not good measures.
Well, I make the magic wherever I can. I don’t know if that’s conscious or accidental.
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