A willingness to go with my gut feeling, rather than wait a day and contemplate other options.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
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No sense of humor.
Being an incurable workaholic.
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Escaping an abusive teen marriage and being blessed with the opportunity to create a new life for myself and my two young children in London at the height of the swinging 60s.
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
Loving, sincere, honest.
Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
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