Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
What is your greatest fear?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Never working again.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗
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Patti Smith
Musician, poet and photographer
Collapse of the imagination.
Rose Tremain
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We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
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To still be working.
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Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
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