Meghann Fahy: 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

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Meghann Fahy said elsewhere, not written here

Your lowest moment is temporary.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

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Lee Child

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

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

Jane Asher English actress and author

Not to take anything for granted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Frank Cottrell-Boyce British screenwriter, novelist and actor

That it’s impossible to persuade other people of the value of the lessons that life has taught you.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995

Not really. I thought that getting the Nobel Prize was a big interruption in my career, I thought and it was very distracting. It takes a lot of time you know, it just takes time to be honoured, you have to travel and you have to give speeches of things you have, oh it’s so often that you get bored to tears when you hear your own voice. And it’s really taking a lot of your time and there’s no way that during this time you can start something new, I mean you just profit from what you’ve done and there is no time to develop new ideas.

Recorded Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003 source ↗