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.
Being too thin-skinned.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.
Doomscrolling on my phone.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
That I am not wise.
Living in a ski resort.
George H. W. Bush, Keir Starmer, Jon Snow, Caroline Lucas, Bob Schieffer, Jon Sopel
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