The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily 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.
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If I needed less sleep.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
Removal of fear and anxiety.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Funny Irish woman.
A wedding ring.
Becoming invisible.
My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
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