Marie Kondo: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Marie Kondo

Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Eve Ensler American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist

I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Lionel Shriver American author

I would have taken more drugs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

Judy Murray Scottish tennis coach

When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 December 2020 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗