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.
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Biting my nails.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗
My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
They treat me as a regular person.
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
Being grateful for what you have.
John Lewis, Rory Stewart, Al Franken, Ed Koch, Jon Sopel, Nancy Pelosi
Search the directory for somebody in particular.