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.
Catastrophising.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 May 2026 source ↗
I love to break rules.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Accidentally walking on to set naked for a scene where I wasn’t actually supposed to be naked.
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
People singing in the street.
Snobbishness, superiority, condescension.
I’m not interested.
Everything’s temporary, and how to make aioli.
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