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.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
Vic, my wife, has over the years reduced my impatience, but anybody who has been in a traffic jam with me will know that she hasn’t completed the task yet.
My pathological incapacity to say no.
Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
I try too hard not to get things wrong.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends.
Big dick energy.
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