The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
The three things I strive for are authenticity, presence and empathy. You’d have to ask my loved ones if I’m pulling them off.
Scruffy, infuriating and kind.
Content, assured, indecisive.
It will be the one or two or three senior Republican leaders who take a public and forceful stand against the ugly lunacy of the Trump administration.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
That I didn’t go to Turkey during the pandemic for one of those male hair treatments.
Intermittent laziness.
With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
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