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 can be pedantic at times.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
I still say yes to too many things.
Still biting my nails.
My self-criticism.
Impatience; the inability to savor the moment.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
Being able to share a confidence.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
The inability to listen.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
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