The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
Mental cruelty.
People who think they’re always right.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
That I’ll die worrying.
Standing up while eating.
They take my calls.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Charlie Munger, Julian Lennon, Frank Bowling, Philippa Gregory, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Griffin
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