The question
When were you happiest?Originally asked
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
The summer just after finishing How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2009 source ↗
Right now and when I was pregnant and when my children were very young.
The birth of my first child, July 4 2002.
When my son Jason King Derulo was born.
Genuinely – and my wife, Lee, knows this – dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly.
Pulping books.
Dying before my children are adults.
Machismo.
"You can't write."
I believed that the real challenge in love was finding ‘the right one’. I now realise that it’s not a case of finding the right one, so much as learning to love rightly.
To make www.theschooloflife.com a global brand (to open a branch in Australia). To make www.living-architecture.co.uk flourish. To write good books.
June Brown, Patti Smith, Shirley MacLaine, Tim Rice, Sue Townsend, Richard Coles
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