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.
The desire to please. It’s a losing battle.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2020 source ↗
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
Procrastination.
Trying to do a million things at once.
Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
Cruelty…no, maybe dishonesty or disingenuousness. All are equally deplorable.
Those who put others first.
Angela Hartnett, Bobbi Brown, Donatella Versace, Christian Louboutin, Keith McNally, Ina Garten
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