Simon Mayo
English radio presenter and author
The friend behind the microphone.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who gave it a go.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗
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Ralf Little
English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.
Randy Pausch
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
Recorded
Pausch's Carnegie Mellon faculty homepage, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, 2008
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Victoria Derbyshire
British broadcaster
As someone who cared.
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A DJ. I still do.
Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.
Decent arts funding.
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