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.
Lack of confidence masquerading as perfectionism.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2025 source ↗
Not following through on things.
I’m disorganized.
My health anxiety. I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I hate that about myself and I’ve worked extensively in therapy on changing it.
Procrastination.
A business-class flight. Pure indulgence.
Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
Probably watching some poor abandoned cat or dog being nursed back to life by a stranger on YouTube.
Not being flexible enough to dance freely.
I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
Kerry Godliman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Trevor Noah, Bobbi Brown, Lena Dunham, Edward Enninful
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