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.
Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
Having no patience.
The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
My fear of confrontation.
Content, assured, indecisive.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
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