The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I talk too much.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
Conflict aversion.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
I’m embarrassed when I get people’s names wrong.
I find it difficult to sit still.
In an audition at the Royal Court, this man called out, “Were you trained?”
Not listening to me.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
My first wife – we were too young.
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
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