[ML] MARÍA LOURENZO

  T he Pivot Questionnaire was invented by Bernard Pivot[1] in the mid-1970s and is directly inspired by the Proust questionnaire[2]. The famous literary critic used to submit his guests to a series of ten (10) questions during his programs "Apostrophes"[3] and "Bouillon de culture"[4]. This questionnaire has also become famous across the United States of America thanks to James Lipton[5] and his show "Inside the Actor's Studio"[6]. During the show, the host also submitted his guests to the questionnaire and paid a vibrant tribute to Bernard Pivot with the phrase "the great Bernard Pivot". However, some questions of the Pivot's questionnaire were considered potentially offensive to US audiences and replaced by a more accepted ones. For example, the question "If God exists, what would you like Him to tell you when you're dead?" was replaced by "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the...

W hen I ask myself who am I, the answer I get is transition. We are never in the same state. We will always change, evolve, grow. This much is clear: discovering who you are is a never-ending journey. I get totally different answer each time I analyse. I am in the flow of my life - in the flow of becoming. I am a W.I.P: work in process / progress... :) The “answer” to “who am I” is our identity. Our identity is our all-encompassing system of memories, experiences, feelings, thoughts, relationships, and values that define who each of us is. It’s the "stuff" that makes up a “self”. Once we have understood the components of our identity, we can get a big-picture look at who we really are. When the question "Who am I?" overwhelm me, I find myself inspired by these quotes :  “We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a “narrative,” and that this narrative is ...