Procrastination.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Question
How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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.
I’m judgmental.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 243 →
Robert De Niro
Actor
I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
My ability to stress myself out.
More from Chris McCausland
View profile →I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
Loud and noisy.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
More on identity & self
Also answered this
Herman Wouk, Judd Apatow, Michelle Visage, Bobbi Brown, Courtney Pine, Katie Melua
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All identity & self questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject