Kiell Smith-Bynoe: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Kiell Smith-Bynoe said elsewhere, not written here

Being giving to the detriment of myself.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗

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Martin Scorsese

Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

Rose Tremain English writer

The only drink I really, really like is champagne.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗

David Hockney Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer

That I give way too quickly.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.

Recorded Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013 source ↗