The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Talking too much.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Getting thrown down a well.
Absentmindedness.
Failure to be on time.
When I finished writing a book.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Jon Sopel, Ed Koch, Rory Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Chris Bryant, Mike Wallace
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