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 be inquisitive.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 December 2025 source ↗
Evolve or perish.
I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen, I think there's evil in the world, but I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.
Don’t answer every question you’re asked.
Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
To have made people healthier and happier.
Six months ago, I decided to move house. I got a skip, cleared everything out and then thought: “Why am I doing this?” So I remained, and I’m glad I did.
Time blindness.
That they were loved.
Connection, warmth, somebody you can trust and, quite happily, say nothing to.
A garden chair from the Chelsea flower show. It was almost the price of a small crappy car.
Paul Kalanithi, Richard Feynman, Mario Molina, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Oliver Sacks, Shinya Yamanaka
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