Any type of indecision.
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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 inability to say no.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
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I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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