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.
Feeling and being unfocused.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
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.
Biting my nails.
I’m rabidly indiscreet. If you tell me an embarrassing story, it will probably end up in one of my scripts or standup routines.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
A Human Touch massage chair in every house.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
Nice, direct, loyal.
You’re more capable than you think.
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