Marcus Brigstocke: 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

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.

Recorded Marcus Brigstocke said elsewhere, not written here

To be here in this one moment.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2025 source ↗

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Ahmed Zewail Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999

It was also evident to me that if you really want to achieve and do well in American society, you have to work, and work hard…You have to work, you have to work.

Recorded Heidi Aspaturian, Caltech Oral History Project, Caltech Archives Oral History Project, 2015 source ↗

Tuppence Middleton

Try not to take yourself too seriously.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗

Peter Sarsgaard

To tell the truth.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

Lee Child

Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗