The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?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.
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Well, I—I've experienced that the stroke was grace. It was grace, for me, to play, to get inside, grace. I was dependent. These are things that I—those, those were graceful things. You know, pushed. And just go inside, to be—you're a quote "author" and it's a cultural thing, that role, to get into your head. But it's a head game. It's a head game. And I wanted to get down to my spiritual identity. And the stroke placed me at the spiritual identity.
The world doesn’t consist of bad and good people; it consists of people seeing things in a different way.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Warm, intelligent, accommodating.
That I am a terrible actor.
My younger self, because I was very, very tough on myself.
As a decent human being.
About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
Fearne Cotton, Shaznay Lewis, Edmund Hillary, Derek Sivers, Eleanor Tomlinson, Esther Freud
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