Alex Hassell: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Alex Hassell said elsewhere, not written here

To keep trying to listen to yourself.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 May 2026 source ↗

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John Simm English musician and actor

Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

It is that you know that you are standing out in this crowd because you are being carried on the shoulders of others. You know, you may have the capacity to articulate their aspirations. That is maybe something special you might have. But what is a leader without followers? I mean you would have all of these interviews and people will not — would not necessarily want to follow. No, I am a great believer in the fact that everything is corporate. Everything is corporate and you — as a leader you are one who can coax the best out of others.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer