The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Try not to take yourself too seriously.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
That further lessons await.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
That I am not wise.
I bought a house with someone and realised at the housewarming party that it was a mistake.
I’d swap out a few boyfriends.
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.
Doing a compulsory standup routine in my first week of drama school.
Oliver Sacks, Richard Coles, Kate Bowler, Robert Carlyle, Paapa Essiedu, Warren Zevon
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