Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
Still doing what I love.
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
I’m judgmental.
When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
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