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What is your greatest fear?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗
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Lack of purpose.
Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
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View profile →To have been one of the people who brought hypnotherapy to the world.
People mistaking my kindness for weakness and stealing from me.
In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
I was in Kensington Gardens and this couple stopped me and said: “Hey, could we get a picture? I said: “Sure.” I put my arms around their shoulders, and they looked at me and said: “No, can you take a picture of us?”
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