Douglas Booth: Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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.

Douglas Booth

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Monica Dolan

I try too hard not to get things wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

Danielle Steel Novelist

Not always standing up for myself enough.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗

Helena Bonham Carter Actor

My distractibility, diminishing memory, and capacity for sustained concentration. My English master once said I had the brain of a butterfly. I feel that 40 years later, I’ve evolved into Dory from Finding Nemo.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗