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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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.

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Hillary Clinton Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee
I don't view myself as cold or ... .
Recorded Humans of New York, Humans of New York, Time, 8 September 2016 source ↗
Bobby Womack American singer-songwriter
My worst habit was drugs, though I haven't done that in 20 years. Cocaine makes you smoke cigarettes and the two of them make you drink. If you are fortunate, you grow up; if you are not fortunate, you go out.
Recorded The Guardian, Interview, The Guardian, 30 November 2012 source ↗

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight
The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗

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