Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗
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.
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I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Angela Hartnett
English chef
Procrastination.
Increasing forgetfulness.
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