Impatience married with being very quick to judge.
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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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Flashes of hubris.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
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Catastrophising.
Impatience and being bossy.
I’m quite stubborn.
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I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
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