Film critic
Recorded · Roger Ebert's Journal, rogerebert.com · 2010
Thank God I found sobriety. I could sustain myself with my work, my reading, the movies, my friends. And walking, walking, walking.
Failure & regret
Failure & second chances
Seven questions about setbacks, bad advice, embarrassment, apologies, and whether you would edit the past.
7 questions, 1 answer written here by 1 member, and 1,008 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?
Writer and human rights advocate; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1986
Recorded · American Academy of Achievement · 1996
After the war — I was 15 when I entered the camp, I was 16 when I left it, and all of a sudden you become an orphan and you have no one.
Neurobiologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1986
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1986
The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where…
Every question in this questionnaire
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- What is the worst advice you followed anyway? 4
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 35
- What disappointment has stayed with you longest? 367
- When were you most embarrassed? 122
- Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? 209
- If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? 203
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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1 answer Bay Area, US
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Twelve questions in FLAPSS wording — taste, daily life, craft, failure, and who formed you. The place to start if you have no idea where to start.
Identity & self
An honest inventory
For a birthday, a quiet Sunday, or the week you realise you have been answering other people's priorities. Not a goal worksheet — the questions people answer differently at fifty than at twenty-five.
Reading & recommendations
Reading & recommendations
Five questions about books you pass on, books that changed you, gaps on your list, and long-form work that stayed with you.