My intense self-loathing.
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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.
Catastrophising.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2022 source ↗
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Feeling and being unfocused.
Impulsivity. We end up in strange places, like right now – I am in the Middle East.
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The fact that there are not enough hours in the day and I’ve taken on too much.
People who are not self-aware.
A personal assistant.
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
During the first week or two of lockdown. We didn’t know what was coming and it didn’t feel dangerous at that point; there was just a real sense of family and hunkering down.
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