Being judgmental.
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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.
How long do we have?
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
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By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
A baseball pitcher.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
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