Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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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.

Recorded Tim Peake said elsewhere, not written here
Shyness. It really held me back when I was younger, and I wish it hadn’t. I do a better job of not being so shy these days.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗

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Being judgmental.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
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I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗

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