Rosalind Eleazar: What lesson has mattered most in your life? — FLAPSS

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What lesson has mattered most in your life?

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Rosalind Eleazar

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That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

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Rebecca Ferguson

To be led by love and not judgment.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗

Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

That you get out of life what you put in. When you grow up on a farm you literally reap what you sow.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗

Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗

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Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Analytical, extreme and playful.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Question What worries you about getting older? Time & hindsight

That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Question As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? Identity & self

An air traffic controller.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

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