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.
My love of sugar.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
Impatience; the inability to savor the moment.
Picking my nose.
Flirting with danger.
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
Any day spent laughing with friends or family.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Joseph Opio, a Ugandan writer who has discovered the secrets of happiness.
Racism and bigotry.
John Mellencamp, Charlotte Church, Angela Griffin, Rita Moreno, Omid Djalili, Fay Ripley
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