The question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
I'd grow more hair and try to be less mortal.
Charlotte Philby, My secret life, The Independent, 1 May 2009 source ↗
My inability to keep track of personal possessions.
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
But I should have more confidence, it's ridiculous.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
Machismo.
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
Dying before my children are adults.
I’m prone to overexplaining things –- when my own understanding of them is shaky. The better I know something, the shorter my prose.
Trying to kiss someone who wasn't interested.
The architect Peter Zumthor, for the baths at Vals in Switzerland.
Margaret Atwood, George Saunders, Carrie Fisher, Danielle Steel, Patti Smith, Adam Gopnik
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