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.
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
The more you face shame and stare it in the eyes and talk about it, the less potent it is.
Keep working, improving your step.
You are good enough.
Life’s too short to take offence.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
Rolling a quad bike.
Not having my injuries: shoulders, knees and ankles. I did a lot of contact sports as a kid.
Infinity. I can’t get my head round it.
Trying quite hard.
One of the first TV appearances that our band made in America, on the Craig Ferguson show. I forgot the lyrics to Little Lion Man and then broke two strings.
Kelly Hoppen, Indira Varma, Rebecca Ferguson, Clive James, Erin Doherty, Leona Lewis
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