American physician-scientist
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2000
I surround myself with brilliant people who are wise and whose advice I can lean on at every possible moment. The Genome Project is a wonderful team effort.
Life experience & transition
Parents & caregivers
Attention, repair, independence, inherited practices, boundaries, and seeing the person beyond the care need.
12 questions, 313 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
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When you need counsel, who is the first person you call?
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
Recorded · Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada · 1930
My mother made the same brilliant impression upon my childhood's eye. She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly—but at a distance. My nurse was my confidante. Mrs.
Vocalist
Recorded · The Talks · 2024
It’s been amazing to be able to spend so much time with her. I’ve joined a couple of tours last year and I’m going to visit her in Denver soon.
Every question in this questionnaire
- What form of attention has mattered most to the person you care for? —
- What has been most rewarding about being a parent? 7
- How do you repair the relationship after you realise you handled a difficult moment badly? —
- How do you protect somebody's independence while remaining responsible for their care? —
- When you need counsel, who is the first person you call? 12
- Which family practice is worth carrying forward, and which should end with your generation? —
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69
- Which boundary lets you care well without disappearing into the role? —
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
- What do you wish other people understood about the person beyond their age, illness, or need? —
- Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? 57
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