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What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2016 source ↗
Zuzana Čaputová Slovak environmental lawyer and later President of Slovakia; 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner
Část lidí mi důvěřovat nebude. Musím to akceptovat, říká slovenská prezidentka Čaputová
Recorded N/A, Interview, ČT24, 15 July 2020 source ↗

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Question What is the book you have given most as a gift, and why? Taste & recommendation
And this is where, a couple of years before I had become CEO, I had read this book by Carol Dweck out of Stanford [University] called “Mindset,” which was more in relation to my kids. And the simple concept in that book, which I loved a lot, was it's better to be a learn-it-all even if the know-it-all has more innate capability, because the learn-it-all ultimately will do better. And I said, well, that applies to CEOs. That applies to companies made up of people. And I said: What if we introduce that as the meme to have the cultural dialogue at Microsoft?
Recorded The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. (official transcript) source ↗

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